RAGWORT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7399, 27 February 1902, Page 2

RAGWORT.

At Pa tea, on Saturday afternoon, a public meeting, convened by the Patea West Read Board, will ba I held for the purpose of considering the best means of combatting the spread cf noxious weed 3, especially the ragwort. It is to be hoped there will be a large attendance, as the subject is one in which every landowner should, on the ground that •■ self-preservation is the first law of uafcure," take a very active interest. Organised effort may do good, and that something of the kind is needed goes without saying. The ragwort is much more prosperous in the northern portion of Taranaki than it is in the southern, but it still has a good hold in many parts of this district, and it is essential that an endeavour should be made to stay its progress before it becomes the ground robber that it has proved up neor Inglewood. Mr James David- | son, who has left at our office a sturdy specimen of ragwort, says it is making itself fiirly well known out Meremere way, and its eradication is difficult in ground in which there are stumps.