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Otago Witness, Issue 3853, 17 January 1928, Page 21

A Hawke’s Bay farmer, who has just returned from a trip to that locality, ex pressed himself as amazed at the condition of the country flanking the Morere-Opo'i-tama road,_ just to tho northward of the Mahia Peninsula (reports the Herald). This country, portions of which are supposed to harbour oil, was originally light bush land. The bush has been long since cleared, and the country gown in grass, but the grass is rapidly disappearing under the spread of tho blackberry, gorse, bracken and a mem bor of the manuka family, known as tawiri. It is practically impossible to eradicate this last-named pest once it gets a strong hold.