Marlborough District Council’s Environment Committee today adopted a new Dog Control Policy and Dog Control Bylaw 2021 for Marlborough. The bylaw becomes effective from 1 August 2021 once it is endorsed by the full Council on 24 June. They key changes .
Friday, 9 April 2021, 2:27 pm
Marlborough District Council is planning to release the
rabbit haemorrhagic virus strain RHDV1 K5 in early May along
sections of the Taylor River Reserve and at neighbouring
vineyard properties. The area includes the floodway reserve
between Purkiss Street and south to opposite Turnbull
Drive.
Rabbits are causing extensive damage to the
stop banks along parts of the Taylor River and to amenity
plantings and adjacent vines. Stop banks are essential for
maintaining Blenheim’s flood protection defences. The area
has high numbers of wild rabbits and conventional control
methods such as shooting are challenging to undertake in
The Blenheim Volunteer Fire Brigade and the Renwick Volunteer Fire Brigade attended “to look after the house”. A helicopter also provided a dozen or so” monsoon buckets of water, filled from the back of a Hilux ute, Hayles said. “And a tractor was there, filling its bucket from a creek and splashing it around. It all helped . We had a good outcome today.”
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FENZ Marlborough Kaikōura principal rural fire officer Chris Hayles warns against using machinery in the afternoon. The fire was sparked by a worker grinding the top of a well pipe, sending sparks into some dry grass.