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Otago Witness, Issue 3969, 8 April 1930, Page 46

Advice has been received by the Invercargill Tourist Office (Mr R. W. Coupland) that the Milford track will be closed on April 24. This will mean (says the Southland News) that all visitors intending to go over the track will have to do so the previous week, as after April 24 the staff will be coming out. A radio telephone is to be installed within the next few weeks at Glade House, and this will be a decided improvement, telegrams hitherto having been despatched to Lake Te Anau, there to await the boat before they could be conveyed up the lake. A farmer in the Pukengahu district states that ragwort is prevalent on the farms in the district to a much greater degree than ever before experienced. In his opinion, the soil favours the growth of the weed. He mentioned that by ploughing the infested paddocks and sowing down turnips he had found that the weed was practically eliminated. In regard to the affected parts that were not accessible to the plough, he was only able to cheek the spread of the weed by laborious cutting. The unseasonable weather conditions, he, said, seemed to favour the growth of noxious weeds. He believed that the Californian thistle was introduced into a number of properties through the use of inferior quality grass seed.