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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1934, Page 4

Approximately 500 ..tons of sodium chlorate were used for the control of ragwort during the season 1933-34, according to the report of the Department of Agriculture. In spite of this and the fact that the Unemployment Board’s No. 11 scheme had been made available, there appeared to have been little headway made in the control of this noxious weed. Many individual farms had been cleared and kept clear, but there were many others that were worse than they were in the previous year. Other noxious weeds, particularly blackberry, gorse, broom and Californian thistle, were still very rquch in evidence in different parts of the Dominion.

The menace to fish and birds of unrestricted oil discharge by ships outside territorial waters was the subject of a recent letter to the Minister of Marine (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe) from the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, which suggested extension of the regulations to special areas such as Cook Strait. In a reply read at the last meeting of the society the Minister said it was impossible to legislate at present. However, the Imperial and other Governments had been considering for some time the question of concluding an international agreement on the subject. Quite recently he had received advice that endeavours were being made to have it discussed at the next Assembly of the League of Nations, and the New Zealand Government would be glad to co-operate in any remedial or preventive measures which might be agreed upon. A belated bequest for an AU Black blazer which he claimed to have earned in 1908 was made by Mr. W. J. Reedy, of Wellington, in a letter received from him by the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union on Wednesday night. Members of the committee pointed out that the granting of blazers was instituted only in 1921. It was decided that no action be taken. “I respectfully desire to bring under your notice that although I had both the honour and pleasure to represent New Zealand in the second and third Test matches against the Anglo-Welsh team in, 1908, I have never received my blazer, ’ wrote Mr. Reedy. “I was measured for it in Auckland at the time the third Test was played, and the following week when I proceeded to Wanganui Mr. Jack Murray, the Wellington team’s manager, informed me that he had seen my blazer and that it was a ‘beautiful job.’ Through some reason or other I failed to receive it. I realise now how foolish I was not to inquire into the matter then, and although it is 27 years ago I hope it will be possible for you to favourably consider granting me the honour of actually wearing a New Zealand Rugby blazer.

The last of the sixth series of flag fivehundred evenings held by the Inglewood Croquet. Club was held on Thursday when the prizes were won by Mrs. A. Codd's table. The points prize for the series was won by Mrs. P. Uhlenberg’s table.