MASTERTON RABBIT DISTRICT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 851, 20 August 1881, Page 2

MASTERTON RABBIT DISTRICT.

Masterton, 13 August; 1881. Srn,—l have tho honor to submit tho\ following report for the information of > the Board, Since the last meeting of your board I have visited the property owned by Mr John MoKenzie adjoining that of Mr A. W, Cave. I find the rabbits very numerous on this land no efficient steps being token to destroy them. Mr Cave's land is endosed with rabbit proof fencing, but the rabbits are continually burrowing under it from Mr MoKenzie's Bide, I saw no poison laid on the land, and I am of an opinion that none, has been used for a longtime. On most of the other properties in that locality (Wangaehu), 1 poison is being used with effeot. I have also visited the properties of Messrs Holmes and Bannister at the Paivau on both of which poison is being used on'Mr J. Dorset, however, hardly anything is being done to keep the pest in cback. ■On Mr'.TuokY Rangitumau ; land I- find 'the - rabbits 'have ; been ponsidorablf reduced in'tiumfoer since the property'has'been enclosed in rabbitpidof fencing, but the peqtia not yet reduced to within anything like reasonable ; limitß.) Mr TuCKjs'not using poison on this land.7 _ .

jj» Mikimiki district,.. On most of these - p. 8 ,, l! are being, kept fairly in oheok. ■sv® were and on- my .way to the Fern--I,B® I'fVisited<tbe r properties of Messrs fuf 0 ' ® vere " Sll d Whitcher. I think Wese.'landownera are using every endea- • tP 'k® Tabbita down. AVith regard to ■ the Fernridgo and the localities about there the settlers are ttikingfairely efficient ' Mr Ashwin poison ( has been Gomplaiiits have to me that rabbit's existing oh land owned by .Mr Wpodroofo, on the Waingawa, are doing a good deal of damage by .coming onto the neighboring-freehold laftdß at and I, yesterday, visited this property. It is principally :bush land;' with -Bome-dear land on the banks of the river. ,-iOn the occasion of . my vißit I did not see many rabbits, but there wore evidence of their existence thero in considerable • numbers, and I shall communicate with ' Mr Woodroofe at once on the subject. : : I havo to report that steps are now being taken to poison die land at the Pairau, owned by Mr Ollivier, and I trust soon to bB 1 able to report favorably of this section. Poison is also being used on Mr Cripp's section on the Opaki. Messrs Day and McLachlan are now doing their utmost to reduce the pest on their respective properties, and I understand from Mr Day that as soon as he has got his crops in ho intends falling a quantity of the scrub, alluded to in a previous report of mine. I have to recommend, if funds for the ■'. purpose'are at the disposal of the Trustees, that 800 lbs moro of grain should be laid on the islands in the Waingawa, as, ; • though the first lot laid was very effectual, '' it is advisable this ground should be re- ' . poisoned at once. I have, &c,, James Harvey, Inspector.

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