RAGWORT ERADICATION
WHAKATANE COUNTY WORK [BY JTKLTCGItAI'JT —OWN* COIt RESPONDENT] WHAKATANE. Wednesday Although it was stated at a. recent meeting of the; Tauranga County Council that owing to restrictions due to war measures the supply of sodium for ragwort eradication .was not sufß-. eicnt to complete j the county .programme, and that it would, bq necessary to revert to the " process of digging out the weed, there has,'been, no shortage iti■ tlio Whakatane County. The position in the Whakatane County -shows a- marked .-improvement this year, repeating the better position disclosed last year. • </ - 1 .There are n0w.26 men engaged. The Poroporo area in other years took from six to eight weeks to clean up," and it was completed,' in two weeks this year. The rivers form the main distributing • channels' for the weed andmuch of the work will be concentrated on their baiiks"; There will probably be 'less''ragwort to deal'with than usual, because last -year.i acres of the plant at the headwatei-s w v ere out'arid tlio w.eod was thus, prevented. from seeding. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23481, 19 October 1939, Page 9
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