CONTROL OF RAGWORT

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3930, 13 January 1933, Page 7

CONTROL OF RAGWORT

VIEWS OF GOVERNMENT FARMERS’ POSITION APPRECIATED That the Government, fully appreciated the difficulties wi which the farmers were at present confronted and that it was anxious to assist so far as cir eumstances would permit wunremarked on by the Hon. C. E Macmillan in reply to the let lie’ from the Inglewood Count' Council relative to the control of ragwort. He added that the position had been discussed with the Unemployment (Board, which was quite willing that unemployed labour should be temporarily diverted to rag-wort destruction work lull neither it nor the Government was able to make any contribution toward the cost of transport or the purchase of weed destroying agents such as sodium chlorate. The question of the cost of sodium chlorate continued the Minister, had been investigated a short time ago by the investigating accountants of the Department of Industries and Commerce who reported that no undue profit was being made and -even if the Government was to import and distribute, a course of action which it was unable to adopt, it was improbable the.' any appreciable reduction in cost could be brought about - . In regard to Crown and Native lands where ragwort was found to be a menace to f - surrounding farming district the Dennrtment of Agriculture would do all it could towards dealing with the pest. It was stated that although a farmer cleared his farm of i ' wort he got a fresh cron +Vfollowing year, the seeds lcuvl" been brought in feed from the back: country.

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