A Napier resident who has just returned from a visit to the Auckland province fold a pressman that the ragwort menace was particularly bad between Rotorua and Matamata. lie said that every effort was being made by Waikato farmers to check the spread of the dread weed, but the Government allowed it to run riot on 'blocks of Crown land, with the result that the plant seeded and propagated through being blown on to neighbouring farms. He said that ragwort poisoned cattle and horses which ate it, and remarked that Hawke’s Bay was fortunate to be free of ik
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17984, 1 April 1930, Page 6
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