NOXIOUS WEEDS.
TREE-PLANTINQ PROPOSAL. (Times Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Monday. At the Royal Agricultural Society's I conference to-day it was decided to ; ask the Government to plant suitable . trees on the Himutakas and other parts ' of New Zealand where noxious weeds i are at, present in possession. It, is : suggested that gums and oilier suit- : aide trees, which grow again after I the passage of fire, would be more i suitable than piling insignis. A delegate referred to lli.e Amci'i- j can method of spraying rough areas Willi seed by aeroplane, and as a suit- i fable district, for such Ireatincnt men- ] , Honed some moist northern lands, , ! immune from Ihe danger of lire, and al pre.-i'iil given over lo unpayable , Has and manuka. Hi; said that in (he ! Tall|mi district young lives were found j a quarter of a mile away from any large, trees, but obviously its seed- | lings.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16811, 1 June 1926, Page 11
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148NOXIOUS WEEDS. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16811, 1 June 1926, Page 11
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