PROSECUTIONS BY STOCK DEPARTMENT FOR NEGLECTING TO DESTROY RABBITS.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1891 Session II, H-38

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Sess. 11.—1891. NEW ZEALAND.

PROSECUTIONS BY STOCK DEPARTMENT FOR NEGLECTING TO DESTROY RABBITS.

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the 17th June, 1891. Ordered, " That a return be laid before this House showing the number of prosecutions which have taken placethroughout the colony since the Ist January last in connection with the Stock Department for neglecting to destroy rabbits, giving details as to dates of prosecution, where cases were tried, names of Magistrates, names of Inspectors who laid informations, names of parties prosecuted, residences of same, and the result of the prosecutions; also a statement showing the number of prosecutions instituted by the department during the same period but subsequently withdrawn, stating by whose authority the prosecutions were commenced, who gave instructions for the withdrawal of the same, and the reasons for so doing."—(Mr. Valentine.)

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Return showing number of Prosecutions throughout the Colony since 1st January, 1891, for neglecting to destroy Rabbits.

John D. Eitchie, Ist July, 1891. Chief Inspector of Stock. [Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, nil ; printing (1,200 copies), £1 10s.

By Authority : Geoboe Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB9l. Plica, 3d.]

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Date of Prosecution. Where Cases were Tried. Name of Magistrate. Name of Inspector. Name of Person Prosecuted. Residence of same. Result of Case. 1891. ■ Jan. 1G „ 30 „ 30 „ 30 Masterton Colonel Roberts J. W. Smith Manihera Maaka D. Cameron Holmes Brothers Williams and Beetham Charles Holmwood D. J. Cameron .. W. B. Buick To Ore Ore.. Masterton .. Matahiwi .. Masterton .. Pined £1 and 7s. costs. Pined £2 and 7s. costs. Pined £2 and 15s. costs. Pined £1 and 7s. costs. „ 30 Feb. 13 „ 13 Mar. 3 » Pined £1 and 10s. costs. Pined £1 and 7s. costs. Dismissed : Technical grounds. Dismissed: Insufficient proof of service. Fined £1 and 9s. costs. Pined £15, including costs. May 29 Timaru .. Captain Wray.. H. S."Thomson H. T. Turner J. R. Scott Dunedin .. Jan. 28 „ 28 Feb. 19 Mar. 9 „ 19 „ 19 Jan. 13 „ 13 Feb. 11 „ 11 „ 11 „ 20 „ 20 Jan. 20 „ 17 „ 17 Feb. 14 „ 14 „ 14 „ 14 „ 14 „ 14 Mar. 14 Jan. 17 Wyndham Gore Winton .. Gore Balclutha C. E. Rawson.. W. H. Revell .. C. E. Rawson .. W. H. Revell .. B. Fullarton John Turnbull .. Thomas Ayson .. Donald Cameron Sophia Kidd Alexander Cameron Scottish Investment Company Allan Boyd James Bryce A. Lee-Smith Robert Robinson A. Carrick Robert Chalmers Alexander Orr .. A. A. McMaster .. A. Campbell Neil McLeod Charles Dore John Allan John Beattio J. A. Allan John Matheson .. Thomas Popham A. Campbell Corporation of Dunedin Ditto Invercargill Wyndham.. Tuturau Winton Tuturau .. Invercargill North Taieri Lovell's Flat Dunedin .. Berwick Waihola .. Pukerikeri.. Clinton Oamaru Mosgiel Whare Plat Middlemarch Pined £2 and costs. Pined £5 and costs. Pined £1 and costs. Pined £2 and costs. Fined £2 and costs. Dismissed: Wrong person sued. Pined £3 and 13s. costs. Pined £3 and 7s. costs. Pined £2 and 8s. costs. Pined £1 and 8s. costs. Fined £2 and IGs. costs. Fined £2 and 14s. 6d. costs. Fined £2 and 14s. 6d. costs. Pined £10 and costs. Pined £2 and costs. Milton .. Clinton .. Oamaru.. Mosgiel .. H. A. Stratford E. H. Carew .. W. Miller .. W. A. Scaife Outram .. Mosgiel .. Mosgiel Dunedin .. Pined £5 and costs. Adjourned to Dunedin. Feb. 5 Dunedin Scottish Investment Company Withdrawn: Satisfactory steps taken in meantime to destroy rabbits ; also counsel for defendant contended information was wrongly laid as against the Mayor, which contention the Magistrate seemed inclined to uphold. Withdrawn by Inspector. Jar. 19 Gore W. H. Revell .. H. T. Turner Invercargill Lpril 14 „ 14 Lawrence T. J. Miles.. William Smith .. Alexander Fraser Evans' Flat Clarke '.si Flat Withdrawn on receipt of telegram from the Chief Inspector, Wellington. The poisoning season being so close, it was deemed expedient not to prosecute.