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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13452, 31 May 1907, Page 5

The Winchester correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writes: — have been shown a fine healthy specimen of that great Australian scourge the Bathurst burr. The

.specimen was found growing at the Smithfield wool-scouring works, Winchester, by ' the proprietor, Mr. H. E. Smith. There 18 no doubt as to the plant being the Bathurst burr, as Mr. Smith has had long experience of it on New South Wales, and Queensland sheep stations. Some eight or nine years ago a vessel, the Strathgiff, 7- laden with Australian wool for England, taught fire and put into Port Chalmers, - where the hold was flooded and the fire quenched. The wool was sold. Among •the buyers was the late Mr. D. McCaskill, of Winchester, who sent some of it to Mr. ■ Smith's works to be scoured, and in this wool were some of the burrs. About three years ago u plant made its appearance, but w os killed by the frost. This year the plant above mentioned has grown.- The s «ed has evidently germinated after lying eiaiht or nine .years iu ,the ground-