Rabbit. 



Co-operating Board 

 to contribute toward 

 barrier fence. 



Arbitration in ease 

 of disputes between 

 Boards. 



Rabbit Board may 

 require rabbits to be 

 destroyed. 



Powers of Board if 

 owner or occupier 

 makes default. 



that the amounts and times and mode of supplying such wire- 

 netting and other appliances be in the discretion of the 

 Minister; 



that the letting of machinery or other appliances for the 

 destruction of rahbits be subject to such terms and con- 

 ditions as may be agreed upon between the Minister and the 

 Boards or between the Minister and the owners of private lands. 



21. Where the Babbit Boards of neighbouring Rabbit Districts 

 agree in the prescribed manner to co-operate in the erection of a 

 barrier fence for the joint protection of the said Districts, the Babbit 

 Board which erects such fence shall be entitled to receive from the 

 other Babbit Board half the cost of erecting the said fence and half 

 the annual cost of maintaining and repairing the same, unless the 

 agreement shall provide for the payment of some other proportion of 

 such costs ; and for the purpose of this section the erecting of a 

 barrier fence shall include only the expense of making rabbit-proof 

 any existing fence on the barrier that may be converted into or used 

 as a barrier fence, and of erecting rabbit-proof fences in places on the 

 barrier where such may be necessary. 



22. In the case of any dispute arising between the Rabbit 

 Boards of neighbouring llabbit Districts as to the payment of any 

 money or the doing of any act required to be paid or done under the 

 provisions of this Act, or as to the carrying out of any agreement 

 between them, the matter of the dispute shall be referred to the 

 Minister : Provided that the Minister before making his award may 

 refer the matter in dispute to any Local Land Board for investigation 

 and report ; and may thereupon either make such award himself or 

 refer the whole matter, together with such report (if any), to the Land 

 Appeal Court to make an award. Every such award shall be final and 

 conclusive for all purposes. 



23. A Rabbit Board may, by notice in the Gazette, specify 

 () a date (not being less than two months from the date of the 



notice) on or before which the owners and occupiers of all 

 holdings and lands within the Rabbit District shall respec- 

 tively commence the work of suppressing and destroying 

 rabbits on all such holdings and lands ; and 

 (b) a period during which the said work shall be continued and 



systematically carried out ; and 

 (<?) the means (being means previously sanctioned by the Minister) 



which shall be adopted for the carrying out the said work. 

 Any such notice, or an abstract thereof, shall also be published 

 in some of the newspapers circulating in the Rabbit District. 



The Rabbit Board may also give to the owner or occupier of 

 any holding or lands within the Rabbit District a peremptory notice 

 in writing to take all proper steps in order to suppress and destroy 

 rabbits on such holding or lands, and to adopt such means for the 

 purpose as may be specified in the notice. The expression " proper 

 steps " in this section means such steps as may be deemed proper by 

 the Rabbit Board. 



24. If any owner or occupier shall neglect or fail to comply 

 with the terms of any notice whether published in the Gazette, 

 or given to him in writing as aforesaid, such person may be summoned 

 to appear before the Rabbit Board, and unless he shall explain his 

 neglect or failure to the satisfaction of the Board, or receives an 

 extension of time to comply with the notice aforesaid, any person 

 authorised by the Rabbit Board may enter upon the holding or land 

 and use all such means and take all such measures and do and perform 

 all and every such acts or things as to him may appear proper or 

 necessary to be done to ensure the destruction of the rabbits upon 



such 



