DOMINION NEWS.
By Teleeraph—Press Association. DESTRUCTION OF RABBITS. _, Dunedin, March 18. Tli.« Magistrate's Court at Cromwell was occupied yesterday in hearing cases against landowners for having failed to destroy iabbit?. The charges are being laid under the Act of 1918. When the defence wan put Mr. Mosley, S-M., said he had no jurisdiction, and that power nas absolutely in the hands of the inspectors, who had only to swear that they had visited the area affected and that in their opinion sufficient and necessary steps were not being taken to destroy rabbits and a conviction must follow. Althoii.. . the Act might be excellent he was placed in an extraordinary and unfortunate position. Fines wero imposed, varying from £IOO (in one instance, for a second offence), £4O and £lO in six cases of a, first offence.' ft is expected landowners will make jvtrong representations to the Government on the position. W.C.T.U. CONVENTION. Wellington, March 13. The W.C.T.U. Convention elected the following officers: President, Mrs. Don (Dunedin); corresponding secretary, Miss Henderson (Christchurch); recording secretary, Mrs. W. A. Evans (Wellington) ; treasurer, Mrs. Bsndeley (Auckland); vice-president, Mrs. Crab'b (Palmerston North).
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1920, Page 7
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