Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XX, Issue 3583, 10 April 1897, Page 2

Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board.

At the meeting of the Rabbit Board on Thursday, the following business relating to this district was transacted. MISCELLANEOUS. Copy of the Board’s proposed amendments to the Rabbit Aot to be supplied to the Norse wood Rabbit Association. The following rate for the year ending March, 1898, was then struck according to notice of motion given, viz., On cattle 15 32nd of a Id. On Bheep 3 32nd of a Id per head, payable on the 14th inst. The chairman was authorised to take the necessary steps to enforce payment of rates. It was decided to make application to the Government for the halt cost of the Ruahine expedition end of the rabbiters’ whares erected. The application for an extra man for temporary work, made by Inspector Woof, was granted. inspectors’ reports. From Inspector Aymes : No fresh signs on Mount Erin, Te Mahanga, Limpus’s, Witherow’s, and Todd’s ; Traces on Abbotsford, Tokuwaru, and Kittow’a, killed rabbit on latter; truces on

M‘Niv«n’s, Mayne’s, and Wellwood l ., uo fresh ones on Twyford and fresh ones on Flaxmere and none fresh on Raokawa, but killed onel' native settlement adjoining. 05 From Inspector Gay fer : On Waikoh| h sections east of Rtkaitea found rahE! on Hona’s found several traces and J two ; traoes on Ponrerere boundary rose two, rabbiter at work ; traces Rathbone’s, rabbiter at work ; rose back of Woburn ; part Wheuuabaa g 4 ti! factory ; several traces on Saunders's a .i rose rabbit; over part Presoott’s, no on part Orowiwhora ; case Cotterill dismissed without traoes on M'Greevy’s and rose rabbit! slight traces on Bailey’s ; traces on Mo nj l Herbert and rose rabbit ; no traces Thompson’s, Tiffen’*, Saxby’s, ElathonJ part Edenham ; traces on Whataram,! none on Te Apiti ; traoes on WalljJ ford at baok, caught two rabbits, rabbit! at work, rabbiter caught 14 sine* Conn case ; suggest ohange of rabbiter’* data in Ngaparuru clearings. From Inspector Woof : Waipnku,,. Gorge to Harding's bu*h, no sigo* ; r j v flats, Waipawa and Tabi Taki lower bush sections, Hampden, and satin ground, Tikokino, no signs ; with T»y] 0l to South Makaretu aud up Raahioei\ camp, Pa kea’s Peak, Long Spar, signs ; no fresh signs where traces 'w er# very numerous; raining iu torrents managed to get to Takapau, Taylor to lay poison where few traces are ; no iig M on part Fairfield or Herrick’s and White’sRoss oonvioted at Waipawa for failing to destroy ; no signs on Petersen’s, Steed'e and other settlers', Blaokburn ; report the range preotioaily clear where inspected' no signs back of Wakararas ; wharei Ct ' reserve nearly completed ; rabbiter gettin. good number of rabbits ; want addition j man to aseiet rabbiter at Makaretu end,