RABBITS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 854, 24 August 1881, Page 2

RABBITS.

(To tlie Editor of the Daiw.) Sir,—ln your report of the last meeting of the West County Council, I am sorry to sop that Mr Beetbain remarks that he knows that some of the Rabbit Trustees are trying to protect the rabbits instead of doing their utmost to havo them destroyed, for which purpose they were elected, Now I can hardly think that aqy gentUnmti vqqld I]b, dishonest enough j;o allow himself to be eleoted by hia fellow settlors with th,e iqtentioq of working to the contrary,' if so, it is high time the Government took, over the management of the work. I only hope Mr Beetham is as his statement is liable to throw' a slur on the Trustees as a body, ;

In the event of the Government undertaking the administration of the Babbit Act, I would sugaest that only those districts or portions of districts where rabbits arc aijijjerftus, should, be by doing so, it whuld encourage the settlers in those distripts which are now comparatively 'free to keep them so. lam, Ac, Henry Braithwaite. . Carterton, August 18,1881. [Mr Beetham referred probably to the evidence ta]fep by the farlimentary Committee which has recently been published, and which justifies the statement' made by him—Ed. W.D.]