GROWTH OF HEMLOCK
DANGER EMPHASISED WAITOMO COUNTY PROPOSAL [nv •i'ki.kc; ha I'll —ows conn esponvitcnt] TE KUITI. Snturdny Notice of motion was given by Mr. I!. Ncal at a meeting yesterday of the Wnitonio County Council to tlie effect tliat hemlock he declareil a noxious weed in the county. Mr. Ncal stated that three months ago a visitor from Taranaki had pointed out a quantity of hemlock growing round the Piopio township. Inspection and reference to books had verified that this plant, something like a coarse carrot, with a root like a parsnip, was present more particularly in scattered places around the Piopio township. It, was a deadly poison, and, although sheep would not eat it unless forced to, it constituted a menace to children, while he knew of one case in which a man had lost half a drove of pigs. Although hemlock was difficult to eradicate, said Mr. Ncal, preliminary experiment had convinced him that, a fairly strong dose of sodium chlorate would meet the position.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21647, 13 November 1933, Page 7
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