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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1028, 21 March 1882, Page 2

A meeting of a committee of the East County Council wuTbeheld onSaturday evening to consider the: : question;bf dog' registration,* There is good i'easori 'to' believe that' the local bodies cannot eh?> force a registration fee for dogs on iwhjch, a proper certificate of exemption has been obtained. It was obviously, the intflti-. tion of the Act of 1881 to enable this fee to be collected, but lawyers are" of, the opinion that the Act, as it 6tandß,'does not carry this power with it. Tlie amen--' ded Act is not suffioietitly specific, itis" said, to over-rido the exemption blauaaJof.' the Rabbit Act. We do not regard this; as a matter of much importance.,- -Regis-,■ tration.is cpmpulßo.ry. The only question which is doubtful is whether on certain rabbit dogs tho owner-'or'the local body shall pay the' feo. If registration .were upset by this difficulty it would ho a serious matter. . • Fortunately, both Counties,- East and West, are pledged to registration, atid-are bound to carry out tho work which they have already initiated,. Should the objection which is now boing raised to tho payment of a feo bo substantiated, the Counties will have to vote a few pounds out of theirgeneral rovenuoio providethe'cost if registration, and next session the; Assembly wili no doubt repair tlio blunder which it is supposed to have, made last year..