LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 140, 23 July 1881, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PBB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] » ■ . ■ -.■ SPECIAL "WIUB. THE RABBIT NTJIS&NCE. WELLINGTON Last Night. The following anene'ed report was brought up at.the House ' ->-day f ■'{Report of .the Committee of theHouse o Representatives Appointed to Consider the Rabbit Nuisance. — Your Committee has conferred with a Committee of ihe Legislative Council ap; tinted for a similar purpose, and acting as a joint'Coinmittee with it, has taken evidence of a number of individuals, ani obtained by circular a large numbc of others, all of which is app nded ; and^has also agreed with lhe Committee of the Legislative Council on the following leport. " Your Committee having m concert with a committci of the .'.egis':Uive Coir cil, obtained a great am»i*nt of information on the subject of tho Rabbit Nuisauce from many persons, and from many parts of ihe Colony, has agreed that a measure calculated to deal more effectually with tbe nuisance as required ; and threfore recommend that, a Bill be introduced m the Session, whioh shall provide that ths ?d---ministvation shall be conducted by ofliee.. s of the Government on a principle similar to that by ivhich the provisions of the Sh-ep Act, 1878, are enforced : and that al! unoccupied Grown Land?, as well as priv?.' 2 land shall heai' Lheir proportional • sua'e of the cost of destroying rabbits, and the exr jnses of administering the Act ; and that prov'sion should made therein for the protection of the natural enemie3 of the rabbit, a* present m the Co'ony. The committee desire to impress upon tlie Hous , its conviction that immediate and energetic action is c ential m order to arrest the further extension of, and suppress this pest, otherwise the result will l ; ruinous. — George Beetham, Chairman.