POLITICAL NOTES.

Lake County Press, Issue 2390, 24 August 1911, Page 4

POLITICAL NOTES.

The Seeds Control Bill introduced by the Hon. T. Mackenare deals with seeds for any grass, cereal, or fodder f or forage. It provides that no person shall sell for sowing any seed that contains more than 2 per cent, by number of gorse or broom seeds, or an aggregate of more than 1 par cent, by number of Californian thistle, dodder, sweetbriar, blackberry and UathursU burr seeds.

Every vendor of a lot of seed for sowing exceeding five pounds in weight is to be required to send to the buyer within three days an invoice certificate setting out the following particulars : The dato of the sale, the seller's name and address, the briyer's name and address, the mark (if any) on the packages, tho name of each kind of seed, the locality and country, aud the year in which each kind was harvested, and whether each kind is cleaned or uucleaned. Cleaned seeds are defined as those containing an aggregate of not more than 6 per cent, of weed seeds. Uncleaned seeds are those containing more than this proportion. The right is given to buyers to send samples of seeds to the Government Biologist for testing. Any material difference from the vendors description

of the pa> eel will be taken a* constituting an offence on the hitter's pirt, and render him liable to a penalty of £lO for a iirst offence and .£SO for subsequent offences. It is provi b-il that gorse seed may be sold I' >r sowing, for fodder, or use as hedge; ;£ the consent of the Minister is first obtained.