NOXIOUS WEEDS QUESTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 10

NOXIOUS WEEDS QUESTION.

- TAR-ANAKI DISCUSSION. ; At. its 'meeting- this week the Stratford' County ■ Council received a letter froni the Bltham County Council asking it to declare foxglove' a noxious, week. - Later.on a .discussion ensued, on, a'.proposal to.'declare' pennyroyal a noxious weed. Councillor Thomson said if this , went on farmers not be able to live on their sections.

The chairman said he agreed with the previous speakor., Ho did not know of the seriousness of • the plant,- except ,that experts said 'it brought aboui abortion. -He did: not like being a party, to.'ask' anyone to do wha:t was not possible,. an<l he was afraid :it was impossible to get rid of the weed. If it :was something a "man could do but' would not; it "w'as.; ; quite right,to 'drop on him, bnt he was afraid if this was ps-sced a man would be harassed by the inspectors. Of course, there , was . a danger of its spreading, was told it died .out- in five, or six'years." Ho was also told that sheep would not eat it unless starving. .. . 1 : A Councillor. Walters -said/he had perexperience.. of;': its *„spreaaing' "powers. .Ho had a patch a yard square on hispropertft tivQ,years ago, which ho' 'oould Shave eradicated in ten minutes. ■Ho neglected'it','-''arid' this' 1 year it cost him considerable to clean <it. ;,

Cou'ncillor..Astbury stated that it v.as. very.,had in.'jiarts' Of' district. It' tainted -the milk. Cattle must :ea-t it',' Because it grew so thick among' the grass. There", was none .in his district, he was . pleased to say, and ; he:did not : :wajit'it there. ■

i. -.-Tho, motion 'carried- on' a-division 'by 0 to" 3. :--