WHAT RABBITS AND RABBITERS ARE DOING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 10, 20 October 1950, Page 5

WHAT RABBITS AND RABBITERS ARE DOING

What rabbiters and rabbits were doing in the district was the subject of a report to the Pongakawa Rabbit Board when it met at Paengaroa. Here is the rabbiters’ port:—Results have been fairly good but in some places there are a number of young rabbits showing up. These are being dealt with as they come to light and most of our area is in good order. We have poisoned 19,400 acres and fumigated 14,400 acres using 16351bs of phosphorised Pollard and 361bs of Cyanogas. During the coming period / Moore will work the Paengaroa and some of the sea front area. Foreman will continue with the Maniatutu country. Carson will carry on with the Bush Road area and some of the Valley Road country. Watsons will work the Otamarakau and part of the Valley Road areas. Simmons will work the Heparu country and the coast area from Matata to Blennerhassetts. Edleman will work from the top of the Manawahe Hill to and including W. Thompson’s. Dungan and McLean a new man who has taken Hopkin’s place will work from Lake Rotoma to join up with Edleman at Thompson’s. Lyons will continue with the Te Teko end of your Board’s area. Raston will work the Rotoma and some of the Rotoiti country. Hunt will work the Te Ngae, Rotokawa and Te Wairoa areas. Lawrie who has been poisoning Ford’s and a strip of Crown and Native lands along the Roforua-Taupo Highway from Ford’s to the Rainbow Mountain and out to Lake Rotomahana, will finish this job at the end of this week. I will shift him on Monday next to a camp at the 15 mile peg on the Rotorua-Tauranga Road from where he will work Sun Valley Station some of Rotoiti Station and Crown and Native lands in this area. S. Edwards will work the Ruwaha and Upper Tarawera country until about the end of this month when I will shift him to a camp at Rotomahana from where he will work the Rerewhakaitu country and the flats at Rotomahana.. Lonely

As this camp at Rotomahana is well back and in a lonely spot I may have to put a casual on with Edwards as I have found that we get better work done by having two men on this job. The stove in our hut at Paengaroa occupied by O. Moore is about burnt out and has become dangerous and could set the hut on fire if a fire was left unattended. We can procure a good camp stove to replace this one from Mr Butler at Raydon Downs. He will sell this stove for £6 and as it is almost new and in good order I would advise your Board to procure it. We will require another ton of Pollard and two cases of Cyanogas. Lyons reported to me that a Mr Paul had lost six pigs and that Phosphorous poisoning was suspected. I went to Mr Paul’s place in company with Lyons on Tuesday, October 5, 1950, but was not able to see the dead carcases as they had been disposed of. Lyons had not poisoned this property and this was admitted by Mr Paul. He had poisoned country adjoining belonging to the Native Scheme and some Native unimproved lands. The nearest poison laid would not be less than one mile from the pig pens but as Mr Paul’s pigs have been running loose they could have wondered on to the country where poison had been laid. The Edgecumbe vet has sent samples to be analysed.