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No. 2. The Under- Secretary for Crown Lands to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christchurch. (Memorandum.) General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 9th May, 1887. Your memorandum of the 23rd April, with reference to the invasion of South Canterbury by rabbits from Otago, has been carefully considered by the officers of the Lands and Eabbit Departments, and I have now to inform you that the Eabbit Department is fully alive to the necessity of taking active measures for preventing the spread of the rabbits in the districts referred to in your report. Mr. Thompson, one of the most energetic officers of that department, has ample authority to take such steps as he may consider necessary. A copy of your report will be laid on the table of the House of Bepresentatives, on the motion of Mr. Lance, the member for Cheviot. H. J. H. Eliott, The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christchureh. Under-Secretary.

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