BANKS PENINSULA RABBIT BOARD

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11670, 10 April 1916, Page 8

BANKS PENINSULA RABBIT BOARD

«■ ♦ -' t > ""The Banks Peninsula Rabbit Board met ■t'the office, Cashel Street, Christchurch, on Wednesday; present—Messrs H. T. Chapman (chairman), J. Parkinson, 11. A. Nutt and.TV. C.'Fleming. v 'lt .'was decided to eue for all outstanding xatM- , » It was decided to draw attention to the Jlo*-X6ward' offered" to anyone reporting persona leaving gates open. '.Tho rabbit inspector reported having -. during the past quaiter inspected ', ■ Port -• Levy, Purau, Cuarteris Bay. ' ,/Teddington, Gebbie's Valley and part ."' of Kaituna. In Port Levy, on Mr ■ 'Williani's, continued the inspector, he put nip one killing it, and saw a few signs on Maori Hill, and also at Maori Cemetery. On Mr B! J. Fleming's he put up three; killing one, 'and 'saw a fair amount of sign's on Messrs 'Steel's and Richard Fleming's." On James Fleming's he saw two rabbits and a f«W signs, also one on Mr B. Whare's. He . . saw signs on Mr L. M. Wilson's, killing two; *hda fair amount'of signs on Messrs Gardiner and Jackson's,, killing five in Camp Bay. In Purau he killed one on Mr L. C. Gardiner's, and two at Diamond Harbour; on Mr H. Gardiner's ho saw a few signs ' ■. Irat pat no rabbits up. 'He killed one on Mr O. Bradley's and saw several *igns on a rocky facing there. On Anderson's 1 Point he Sit up one and saw several signs there. On r T. Bl&tchford's he killed one, but there ■were not many signs there. On Mr L. "Wilson's he saw nine, shot two, and laid poison there; he saw six on Mr W. A. Gray's •nd-,several signs there; on Mrs' Coop's he •aw ""three, killing one, and saw a fair •mount of signs round the gofse there. On ' Messrs Gobble Bros.' he shot five, and there *re»e' still a few there in various places. In Kaituna, on Mrs Walsh's property, he killed five-and six small ones; one on Mr T. Har- • ris's and put up several on Mr W. Page's, finding a fair amount of signs there. He , put rip one on Mr A. Hulston's and saw several signs, and also put up one on Mr J. Parkinson's, joining* Mir Hulston's. Waitangi he fonad fairly free except in one place, called Boar's Flat, where he killed ono, but. there were several in there. On Willesden he killed two, and put up two others. He saw the manager and they arranged to put poison down. On Mrs R. Birdling's property, Catins Bay, he killed five,-and put up several others. Mrs Birdling was putting on a man to try and destroy them; there was still an odd one on !F; and A. Birdling's. He also reported iaving l cleared gorse along the fence and killing'inside the fence somo fifty-one rabbits 4h« last three months, also having attended to several of the gates and the fence in two places, all of which aro now in fair order. 'At Burke's the Ted glass had again broken and required replacing, and also 'jboio- cable for the gates.