MENACE OF RAGWORT.
COUNTY COUNCIL URGES ATTENTION. Writing to the Waipa County Council the New Zealand Farmers’ tin ion at Cambridge urged the Council to support representations to ha;e ragwort declared a first schedule noxious weed, and also to have all Crown lands cleared of this weed, which is last becoming a worse menace in the Waikato than blackberry. Local bodies were urged to employ the services of their inspectors in having this weed pulled and burned. The chairman, Air D. S. Reed, said this was a very serious question. It was being kept quiet, but it was pretty well certain that sheep were dying by the hundreds. It would be Cell to recognise the danger oi this weed, which an alarming spread. He dul not know about Crown kinds, blit on general principle the representations of the Farmers' Union should be supported. This it was decided to do.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FS19260311.2.60
Bibliographic details
Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 729, 11 March 1926, Page 7
Word Count
149MENACE OF RAGWORT. Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 729, 11 March 1926, Page 7
Using This Item
Copyright undetermined – untraced rights owner. For advice on reproduction of material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in