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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1288, 14 July 1886, Page 2

ASHBURTON OoUa'TY COUNCIL. j RABBIT NUISANCE NOTICE ia hereby given that the Sheep and Babbit Inspector having reported that the rabbits in this county ate on the increase, owners of property are notified that the Rabbit Act will be strictly enforced by the Inspector unless immediate steps are taken to destroy the pest. The attention of landowners is called to the following clauses of tbs Babbit ict: —

Clause No, 8. —Any Inspector may serve or caused to be served upon any one or more of the owners of any private land on which he believes there are rabbits, a notice in writing in the form or to the effect set forth in schedule A, hereto requiring the immediate destruction of the rabbits on such land.

Clause 9lf immediately upon the service of each notice each one or more of the owners ujon whom the same is served do not commence to do all such acts, deeds, matters, and things as in the opinion of the Inspector may ba necessary to destroy the rabbits on tbo land mentioned in such notice in the shortest time possible, and having so commenced do not continue such action nntil such rabbits are destroyed, each of the owners upon whom such notice has been served shall be

liable to a penalty of not ponnd nor more that twee Clause 10- —After the e: month from the date of a oc the last preceding section still, In the opinion of thi rabbits op the land men notice, each or any one < owners upon whom the no in the preceding section fa shall be liable to a further less than five pound* n twenty pounds, and so on ceeding period of one which there shall stilt, in the Inspector, be rabbits n Giaase 11.—If any own< or fail to comply with aforesaid to destroy rabbi’ dition to or in lien of proc recovery of a penalty as T "spector or any person a inspector may enter upon nentioned in such notice,