NOXIOUS WEEDS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 148, 1 July 1911, Page 4

NOXIOUS WEEDS.

I . Replying to a -deputation. at I the Hon.. Thos. Mackenzie said a is had been reached! dan the history some districts : with, noxious weeds: ii'e pointed out to those who ware'M 'advocating that the Act I*B isusipeiidH iH edi the seriiouis' resets JikeJy to ; low. Immediately a district was gats■stted as -weed infected l the products I coarauiig from that locality would be H greatly handicapp'scl. Seed, chaff, aanai I eve.ni gracai would be'looked at .askance ■ and as a Seeds Purity Bill woiuldl be'.H probably placed 011 the Statute Book H at an early dlate, seeds, uuillasa P :Sl 'ly cleaned, would come within thaH scope of; that measure's op,erat,ionisl The problem was a difficult one, and-H ifc was receiving, hiis post careful con- H sideratio.ll with a. view to endeavor—iing to .evolve a "modus operandi' 1 H \y:liich_ would in a dfegree meet the H Siituatioai. Of course, if a farmer whose property as free friom the Califoriiian thdstLe looked Miuth indlitf- H ferience upon' what was occupying the inspecto'rs, and gave no iiudiicaitiioaiß of supipioirt to the very arduoius disagreeable dutiies which the insp.eetors had to carry out>, tlno fact might ha-Ave .cionsid'erable influence in any future line of action. The cost .at the present time was,great, a-iud' thie exeeednngly unpleasant. •