RAGWORT NOT CLEARED

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 16 April 1930, Page 4

RAGWORT NOT CLEARED

FINE OF £2O IMPOSED CASES AT TE AWAMUTU For failure to clean their farms of ragwort about a. dozen settlers of the To Awamutu district were prosecuted in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M. They all pleaded guilty and the fines ranged front £1 t o £2O. the later penalty being imposed on C. Haddock, an owner of property on the Ngahinepouri Road, Ohaupo. inspector Melrose said Haddock bad been previously fined. He ignored notices and nothing had been done to the land, which was unoccupied and rapidly becoming covered with ragwort, thus menacing adjoining lands. The Magistrate said defendant’s ease .seemed to be about as bad a one as th inspector could get in rbe whole of liis district- Steps must be taken to cheek the spread of ragwort. Landoners owed a duty to (heir neighbours. Defendant, had taken no nolioe, so a £2O penalty was fully deserved .