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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9553, 14 December 1909, Page 4

Mr Buchanan, M.P., recently approached the Government on behalf of settlers in his electorate to ascertain if it were willing to waive the duty charged on rabbit netting. Ho met, we understand, with a refusal. The position, we believe, is that settlers near the ranges are pestered with hordes of rabbits bred on adjacent and neglected Government reserves. The only effective remedy is wire netting and ou this the Government place au objectionable levy, it seems to us that in this matter, as in the case of our fore-shortened time-table, Che Government are penny wise and pound loolish. We expect a Government to daai intelligently with practical questions such as these, affecting as they do the interests of large masses of settlers, but we must confess that we are disappointed. The Government, in its finance, does uot appear to discriminate betweeu essentials and non-essentials.