CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2262, 5 April 1886, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

BABBIT INSPECTORS.

[To the Editor.] Sir.—l see in your leading article tli mention of a settlor who has been actual! beon laying four tons of poison for rabbit: Wo luvve been laying far more than thn oil an average per annum, and still hav been fined under the act. Moreover w have nover had less than four moil wit dogs on at one timo, and have nevei liko somo whyhavo escaped punislmienl L left the rabbits alone at any time. Th ■ Rabbit Act is most un-English and i quite inoperative except as a means c persecution when placed in the hands i loct\l bumpkins, who, though they ma bo taollent men among sheop, only knot rabbits anil .their habits from hearsay Indeed we can imagine a class for Inspec tors a few years ago being ■ schooled witi the help ofa large cartoon into the appear ance of the rodent, and as to how man; go to mako (not a pie) but an opinion Men who have seen nothing of the pes olsewhere are of course incapable of form ing what the act must mean by an " opin ion." Indeed they confess that they an Incapable-when they state apolngeticallj that they are acting in the present crusadf "oninstructions"from Wellington. The rabbit scare in this,part,of the'Nortl: Island is very much oxaggoratcd. . I have , eeon rabbits quite asthick in partol i England Scotland, and Wales, »in places I too whero they woro not preserved. The .notion of! an Inspectorial Being robed ■under the-.Rabbit Act mall, the power, ol his ".opinion" laying'aside;his.vaut.6cracy and being content to folkiw instruction froiii ooino old fogey at- the ski- of Government Is a descent from the sublime to.tlie ridi culos. I will not sign my name to this', but should ah Inspector ask it, give it by #ll means,; and I will await the. developmont of tlie "opinion" which is a varyinj quantity, v vi'i.y 'C-. ■, lIAMHIOWXEK. ■