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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 49, 10 February 1932, Page 7

The fact that the African boxthorn was making its appearance very thickly on the uplifted areas in the Ahuriri Lagoon was brought to the notice oi the Napier Harbour Board this morning by the committee set up to deal with the experimental seed plots in the area. “The committee,” stated the report, “noticed that this pest is making serious headway on the uplifted areas on the Westshore side.” Mr. N. P. Eriksen, a member of the committee, stated that the boxthorn was now too big to be pulled up and the only thing would be to leave it for a year or so. Mr. J. H. Joll said that there were all sorts of young bush trees coming up on the land. The board decided not to do anything in the meantime. Relief work on the Wellington College grounds was stopped some days ago on account of the three per cent, accident insurance charge. As a result of representations this bad now been reduced to 30/- per cent, which is made retrospective, enabling the work to be continued for a few more weeks. It. was suggested by the chairman of the College Board of Governors to-day that no doubt, tha City Council would take steps to obtain similar relief on city works.— Press Assn.