A meeting of the Hawke's Bay Babbit Trustees' financial committee was held at Hastings to-day. Present— The chairman (Mr T. Crosse), Mr A. M'Hnrdy, and Inspector Drnmmond. Inspectors Ames and Woof attended. Tbe pay-sheet, amounting to £153 13s Id/ w«a passed for payment. The Weber Road Board wrote, asking the trnatees to contribnte a proportion of the cOBt of division fence between road reserve, section 5, blosk VIII. , Weber, at Ti Tree Point. The trustees declined to do so.— Permission to fall scrnb along the rabbit fence line was refnsed to Mr ilowning, as ib would jeopardise the fence when the bush was fired. — Beports were read from the rabWtln9pectors. InsppotorM'Pherson was directed to ccc that the scrub along the rabbit fence at Mr Downing's section was not cut. Particular attention to be paid to the Tantane inn and Williams and Kettle's Bectlon at Msngatoro, whpre poison would be advisable. Inspector W. S, Woof was directed to keep a strict watch as to the state of the Clifton run. A copy of the judgment in the appeal case of Andrews v. Wallace Smith, given by Mr Justice Rlohmond at Masterton, was I read.
DANEVIRKE.
