Mayor Bob Callow has recently returned from holidays and spoke to the Junee Independent about an issue that’s come before Council since returning.
Callow started, however, by praising the job of Deputy Mayor Marie Knight as she filled in during his trip.
“Marie Knight did quite a good job in the position while I was away. She looked after Anzac Day and a few other functions for me. She did a Council meeting and tended the weeds committee,” he said.
“That’s what it is all about, that’s the reason you have a deputy.You choose somebody who you know will just jump into your shoes at the drop of a hat and do the job and do it well. I thanked her several times for what she did, and she’s a very confident person. She just gets in there and does the job.”
Callow would continue to address the rabbit issue in the Shire, which Council has been contacted about since he returned.
“I don’t know whether it’s a huge one for everybody, but we are having a lot of problems with rabbits at the moment and we are trying to work with the Local Land Service.”
He said Local Land Service has the responsibility for looking after pests, which wild rabbits would fall under. “The Local Land Service should be the first contact for everybody if they’ve got a really big problem and we are working with them to eradicate them at different times, but it’s chasing your tail. They’re not the kind of beastie that can be eradicated easily.”
Local Land Service NSW (LLS) says to meet your general biosecurity duty, all landholders must reduce risks caused by rabbit populations on land under their care and control by undertaking rabbit control activities.
Examples of rabbit control activities according to LLS you could undertake to achieve your general biosecurity duty are: undertaking both primary and supplementary pest animal control; destroying warrens and known harbour (i.e. piles of old logs or bricks, dense weed infestation or clearing under old buildings) actively participating in a coordinated pest animal control programs (i.e. baiting or shooting), keeping pet rabbits secure and euthanising unwanted pet rabbits.
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