7. Your Commissioners strongly urge that communications be at once opened with the Pasteur Institute in Paris, with the object of obtaining a well-trained bacteriologist, competent to give a thorough trial as to the effect of chicken cholera, or any other disease on the rabbit; and, at the same time, investigate the cause of the extraordinary disappearance of the small marsupials in many parts of the State, with a view to ascertaining whether the disease which, presumably, caused such mortality could be efficaciously applied to rabbits.

8. Your Commissioners consider it expedient that a special officer under the Minister of Lands be appointed, who shall be directly responsible for the effective dealing with the rabbit pest.

9. Your Commissioners desire to represent in the strongest manner that the matter of checking this rabbit invasion is urgently important, and they suggest that all necessary material be at once ordered, and that all other requisite steps be immediately taken to ensure the erection of the proposed fence without any delay: time being the essence of the whole matter.

Certified under our hands and seals this twenty-first day of March, 1901.

[L.S.] ROBERT BUSH, Chairman. [L.S.] CHAS. HARPER. [L.S.] W. T. LOTON. [L.S.] R. G. BURGES. [L.S.] DAVID FORREST. [L.S.] A. R. RICHARDSON. [L.S.] F. WITTENOOM.