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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 9

A Californian thistle is scowled at bv the law (says the “Auckland Star”), but a true, dved-in-the-wool emblem of the Scot, the Caledonian variety, is not so regarded, and may, like “Caledonia stern and wild,” defy the world. This was stated at a meeting of the One Tree Hill Road Board when a ratepayer wrote demanding that sections adjoining his, in Kowhai Road, should be cleared of their prickly growth. It was stated bv the chairman that the locality had been visited by an inspector, who had reported favourably on the thistle as not being “agin the law,” for it was a Caledonian thistle, and Caledonians were not regarded as noxious weeds within the scope or meaning of ’’he Act. The local authority, therefore, decided that there were no grounds upon which the growth could be destroyed.