WEED IN LAKES AT ROTORUA
Government Action Wanted “The Press” Special Service ROTORUA, Jan. 7. The Society for the Eradication of Lake Weed will ask the Government for an immediate full-scale attack on oxygen weed growing in the Rotorua lakes. This was decided at a meeting of 50 members of the society at Okere. The chairman (Mr L. P. Leary. Q.C., of Auckland) said the society appreciated the results obtained by the use of the chemical diquat in clearing trial plots in Lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti. The poison had proved 100 per cent, effective, was safe to animals and human* and had a far greater spread than other chemicals, which made it more economical. Mr C. M. Taylor, secretary and treasurer, said the Agriculture Department intended to carry out further experiments on the weed either late this month or in February, and a helicopter might be used for spraying. »A motion passed at the meeting said treatment of the weed was urgent, owing te its rapid spread and because delay would mean a higher cost in eradication.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29715, 8 January 1962, Page 13
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