NASSELLA SEED
Dispersal Fears Control of the possible dispersal of seed from North Canterbury nassella tussock areas will be discussed by representatives of the North Canterbury Nassella Tussock Board and a sub-committee of the Canterbury Nassella Tussock Co-ordinating Committee. Mr W. C. Miller, chairman of the co-ordinating committee, told its meeting yesterday that there were difficulties ahead. People on clean country wanted restrictions which those on nassellainfested country did not want. He recalled that regulations to control the movement of stock and other means of carrying nassella seed had been prepared in 1957, but not introduced. A letter from the North Canterbury Board said that representatives had been appointed to meet the sub-com-mittee. The board felt that restrictions were hardly warranted, as there now was virtually no seeding of nassella in the board’s district. Tests made by the Department of Agriculture on lines of sheep offered for sale proved this, and dispersal of seed by other means would be no worse. *
“That seems surprising,” said Mr Miller, adding that he would arrange a date for the meeting.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 11
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177NASSELLA SEED Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 11
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