PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 11

PUKEKOHE AFFAIRS.

SPREAD OF " FLOWERING ONION." (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, Thursday. The Pukekohe Borough Council met on Wednesday evening, the deputy-Mayor, Mr. G. T. Parvin, presiding. The Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association solicited support to its representations to have the plant commonly known as flowering onion, declared a noxious weed, as such, when eaten by dairy cows, tainted milk. It >vas stated that there was a bunch of this plant in one portion of the borough. Support was accorded the Auckland Association, and the council decided to write to the Department of Agriculture on the question. The council consented to the numbering of houses and business premises in the borough. The council adhered to a previous decision to refuse permission to a Mission to conduct meetings at the junction of any side street with King Street, the main business thoroughfare. The health inspector was asked to report on the best measures to be adopted to minimise' the mosquito nuisance. The 10 per cent penalty on unpaid rates is to be enforced after February 27. Steps were authorised to t>e taken to stamp out any patches of ragwort in the borough. It was stated there were isolated cases where ragwort was getting a hold in the borough. Dog registration fees were fixed as follows:—-Cattle and sheep dogs, 2/6; other dogs, 7/6.