NOXIOUS WEEDS MENACE
SPREAD ON REHABILITATION BLOCKS (P.A.) Hamilton, March 15. The spread of noxious weeds on some rehabilitation farming blocks, particularly on the Paratu block, Walton, was referred to by the Piako County Council in a letter to the conference of the No. 2 ward of the New Zealand Counties Association at Hamilton. It was stated that in a number of cases the -weeds were more than the exservicemen settlers could cope with, and the county urged that the Government be asked not to settle men on the blocks until they were reasonably clean. Mr H. Johnstone said that if sheep were run on the blocks instead of sheep and cattle the trouble would be overcome.
It was decided to ask the Government not to subdivide land into dairy units where there was any danger of noxious we?ds becoming ? menace, as had happened at Paratu.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14928, 16 March 1949, Page 6
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