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Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 16

“They will never do a tiling, hut the* will call upon a farmer in the neighbourhood to eradicate the weeds.” said Mi* Fletcher at the Farmers’ Union meeting at Palmerston. It was time, he said, that the Government saw to its own defects before calling on others. Mr Fletcher became more indignant: “Go anywhere down the railway line,” ho said, "and see the noxious weeds which are never cleared until a fire comes along when the seeds are ripe and the disease is spread. Then the Government will ask the farmer -to eradicate the weed, which ha« come from the Government land.”