NATIVE PLANTS
PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION ACT TO OPERATE SHORTLY [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"] WELLINGTON, Friday * The fact that the Native Plants Protection Act, which was passed by Par-
liament last session, will be pat into foroe in a few days, was announced by • the acting-Prime Minister, Mr. Ransom, on Wednesday. A list of native plants allowed to be taken is as follows: —Hutawai, or piripiri (bidibidi), tutu, the firewoods kannka and manuka, hard fern, touhinu (two species), bracken, nettle, also all species of sea and fresh-water weeds, fungi, lichens, liverworts and mosses.
Mr. Ransom added that the warrant, which has now been signed by the Governor-General, declares all native plants, with the exception of a few species which are commonly regarded as weeds, are to bo protected throughout thq whole of the Dominion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22094, 27 April 1935, Page 12
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