MASTERTON RABBIT DISTRICT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 846, 15 August 1881, Page 2

MASTERTON RABBIT DISTRICT.

A'meeting'of the Trustees of tho above district was held on Saturday.the 13th mat. Present-Messrs. Stewart (chairman), Welch, Gunderson, .Dagg, and Campbell. The minutes "of tlitT previous meeting were read and confirmed! Mr J. V. Smith attended, and stated that he had come down on the day fixed for hearing objections to the landowners list, in, order tu state that as his 'lease of the Education reserve on the Waipoua has expired, bo claimed to have the acreage deducted from that against his name—but that he had found the meeting adjourned.. After hearing Mr Smith's explanation the Trustees decided to receive his objection and reduce the acreage.against-his'name accordingly. ..,:...

Mr Smith then made the Inspector's report the subject of some remarks, stating he considered he hud been exceptionally treated therein. As other landowners' in the district had received warning from the Inspector prior to being repotted. And added that had this taken place in his case, the ground in question would have been pDi'soned a week suoner than it actually was. '. CORttESrONDKNCE.

A loiter from the Education Board stating that the Board had nn funds to expend un the Bangitumau Education Reserve. [No application had been made to the Education Board .'with this object in view, but the letter appeared to be in reply to one sent to the College Trustees requeatii.il that body to take steps to destroy the rabbits tin their reserve at Alfredton, which request hud at once been carried out by them.]—A letter from the Oiistlepcint Board statins that Mr Mace denies tho I act that rabbits are, or ever were, as numerous on his sido the river as on Mr Hatfield's, and that he was not awaro of Mr Hatfield laying any poison on his side, thomiii he (Mr Mace) bad poisoned his. It was resolved that the Inspector be instructed to proceed to Mr Hatfield's aud examine the locality in question. The following accounts wero passed for payment:—Levin .& Co., balance of account for phosphorous, &c, £6O ; H. Bannister, labor, &c, poisoning 'fa Ore Oro hills, £lol7s. The secretary was instructed to communicate with the Gastlepoiut Trustees on the subject of the purchase by that Board of some oil of rhodium which the Masterton Trustees had to spare. The Inspector's report was then.read, after discussion on which it was resolved on the motion of Mr Welch, seconded by Mr Da™, that the Inspector be instructed to take steps to lay 20011)8 of poisoned grain on the islands of the Waingawa, as advised in his report. The meeting then adjourned to Saturday, 2?th inst., at 11 a.m.