NASSELLA COSTS

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30453, 29 May 1964, Page 6

NASSELLA COSTS

Estimate Of £100,439 In the coming year, the North Canterbury Nassella Tussock Board estimated it would spend a total of £100,439, compared with £98,186 last year.

These estimates were approved by the board at its meeting yesterday. Of the total estimated to be spent by March 31, 1965, the greatest allowance of £46,000 is allowed for grubbing gang wages. Herbicide control of the weed, which is estimated at £l2 10s an acre, totals £7980 as well as a further £llOO for experimental aerial seedling control and ground spray work. Other control works are estimated to cost £3820. The estimates allow for £21,376 in recoveries from grubbing, £7045 from county contributions of the four counties in the board’s area. One of the major receipts allowed for in the estimates are Government subsidies totalling £58,450.

The Mexican Federation is building a modern unit at the Sports Training Institute which will inelude a sports stadium, an indoor track, an Olympic pool and a gymnasium. With a newly designed system of drainage, the track can be used within 15 minutes of a heavy rainfall; The stadium’s capacity will be about 25,000—(Reuter).