RABBITS ON FARMS
DESTRUCTION NEGLECTED “I do not want it to he a precedent, but. 1 feel I might take into consideralion the financial circumstances of these two men and reduce the fines,” remarked Mr. J. Miller, S.M., when two Waikari farmers were chai'ged in the Napier Magistrate’s Court with failing to destroy rabbits on their propejHes. Due of the defendants staled he was engaged under the soldier settlement scheme and had originally carried On sheep farming, but had later taken to dairying. “I am just about paying wages, but am getting behind all’the time,” he said. “I am not earning wages myself, and the man working for me is better off than I am.” Mr. H. B. Lusk, counsel for the Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board, said: “if they are trying dairy farming I ani quite satisfied they are having a hard struggle.-*’ His Worship decided to reduce the fines on the two men from £5 to £3. “It will not be a. precedent, though,'” he added.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 17 May 1934, Page 4
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