NASSELLA TUSSOCK
Sir, —I have listened to the debate on nassella tussock. The Government should give serious consideration to the views of Mr Morgan Williams before it acts on sensational, in fact hysterical, views expressed by other speakers. “Nature’s answer to soil erosion”! A wise man dares to express such a thought. Mr Machin may yet be planting it in watersheds. It is said to be unpalatable (there is some doubt about this); so is the native tussock. It spreads rapidly on third-class country—just the thing. Give some to Mr Bodkin to control scab weed. There is no danger to first and second-class land. Carrying capacity in the Waipara County has npt declined. What is wrong with it? Let the Department of Agriculture investigate the uses of the tussock. Send two farmers (Mr J. W. Earl and Mr Williams, not a Government botanist) to South America.—Yours, etc., EN PASSANT. July 19, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24932, 20 July 1946, Page 5
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