SPREAD OF RAGWORT
INCREASING IN NORTH MORE INSPECTION WANTED [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Thursday A decision to ask the Department of Agriculture to retain the services of the present temporary ragwort inspector for the full 12 months or, alternatively, to appoint two inspectors during the summer, was reached at the meeting of the Whangarei subprovincial executive of the Farmers' Union to-day. That ragwort was increasing in the North was the considered opinion of the majority of the speakers. It was stated that farmers did not seem to realise the great danger of this spread of ragwort and were not prepared to pivo information as to the location of patches in their districts. Parts of the North were the finest breeding grounds for ragwort in the world, said one speaker. • •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23002, 1 April 1938, Page 8
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