STOATS AND WEASELS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 810, 4 July 1881, Page 2

STOATS AND WEASELS.

[T6 the Editor of 'the 1 WaieA'rai'a Daily.] j ■ Clareville, July Ist, 1881. Sib,—Knowing you are ever.ready to publish public, I liofie,; you-will Kndly insert that Mr jßuehanan/jand.'i! few others are very anxious to .import stoats and weasels foil the destructipn of rabbits. . Now, I think -they are penny wise , and pound foolish, the remedy; .will, becomp worse than jtlje disease. I sincerely hope the public will [not stand by and allow Isuch men as Mr Buchanan aiid a few otjiers to' carry out such a foolish idea; as ifjit is done, it will pnly bringHlie curses-of after generations on their heads for bringing such useless vermin : into a country.. like this, where wo are of such: gsUs.v lain gladj-to see jttitf'fte Trustees are -not inchned to sanction so foolish a whim, and I certainly gave Mr Buohanan creditiprfyettersense.; l And, I'(> mayj say,' it..just 1 , shows how careful we 1 ought to be_ in the. sort of animals we . import, for- if'the' rabbits , brought ,here we should not have had toexterminate" them/' : tlifr Wt are the sparrows, winch 'arVa pest to the farmer; and'yet, in the face of these / j jtrouljles, they want nioro. -..-But ..a jl hope the pttblio will sfudy 'theft in* b Jterests, and not allow! sucli J /brute's to be brought-info the cojinfrf. -T ' * can jusufe you, it .is. only: for the. large, r I landowners, jand itltem that theleia 1 pests|are about,to be;introdi]ced>; for-the 1 small farmers have .np^ar, ftf Jo suffer for thelargo lanß6^er'? !ll 1j(St : '' ,vft ' i^ e toWingß rigto, smallei: c fli'eaa and -they I 'will gei lid of theraUj|]iJ. and; increase the revenue at the Bama time, 'AW'nowivMii Editoiv •have not trespassed tw.nrach on your /valuable space, i -a'liMiijiftc;!um'M'M