PURE SEEDS BILL.
■■■; DISCUSSION AT FEILDING. A meeting of the Feilding branch of the Fanners' Union was, says our Feilding correspondent, held on Friday, Mr. A. E. Mavo pTcsidinj. A copy o"f the Pnro Seeds Bill was placed before, the meeting. Mr. Booth said tho matter had .been before ' the executive, a.nd they had decided that the percentage of weed seeds allowed in the Bill was too high. Mr. M'Elroy said he thought it was a good Bill, but the percentage was too high, The 'farmers needed somo protection. He .believed that the Californian thistle they had in this district came in the grass and other'seed from tho South Island, and it was possible some noxious weed seeds came in the clovers from Home. It was an Act that was badly wanted. It was pointed out that according to the. schedule of, the Bill, 1 per cent, of Californian thistle was allowed in grass seed. Mr. Pearce said he would not buy 100 bushels of grass seed if he' thought there-was a bushel of. Californian thistle seed in it. Hb proposed that in the opinion ..of this branch tho percentage allowed by the Bill was too high. Mr. M'Elroy seconded tho motion, which was agreed to.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1253, 9 October 1911, Page 8
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206PURE SEEDS BILL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1253, 9 October 1911, Page 8
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