NOXIOUS WEEDS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 922, 15 September 1910, Page 8

NOXIOUS WEEDS.

: :: :,; .- AEE THEY SPREADING ■ ."''. . -EXTENDI ,/\- - Only the other day Mr; Field, M.P. 'for Otaki, asked, the/Government . whether particularly .ihvieiv of the alarming increase of noxious - weeds in ' various parts of .the Dominion;and of the-.great'..in-creasing--, interest. .VwJjlch-,various, lending Departments of th'p' , Stitfe"'llbld as riiortgages in/country laiids -6t~ the, .Dominion, 'it would'/cbh'sider ',; the 'Advisability of instituting; a /syslMmilic' • inspection; of State, securities / f or. tk"o, purpose .of., pre.yehting ;their depreciation by the spread -of-weeds and: other/forms -of neglect. /:/ '."The Government: is .■ advised, replied the :Prihie Minister /"that", noxious -weeds,; are licit, extending ~td . the:.'ex-' terifciiidieatedMiyi We/question! Inquiries will, be made," however, and, further consideratidn" given : 'toi ; the'' matter." .:: -, ! .-•Discussing- £ the: matter," "-Mr; / Allen :(Br,uue)i"sul(l*' itl.Wimld;: appear'■. that the Government did/hot/intend to do:, any---matter: tMs..session.:-:-vile .would, like to know: how 1 ; 1 long;, the inquiries ■ referred':to/ goingi to continue..'; If' the'v'Minister bring .downs,an(,ame,ndinßtßill, i ,;b.o. would 'have to' introduce' 4 aill-kimsiclf: '.;" v-,«?If,V the/Government, will only bring. oWe[''cl.aßse,"".-re-ldarked '"the: : hierh-: get/a workable/measure.".',// t"-';• ■ < The Hon.. T." Mackenzie'; (Minister for Agficultnrp), declaredv.thatvi'f'i.the; weeds ■were; to ■be /kept ./down as' had '• been suggested;' -the'' estimate for .-the year would, have toHjc at,least:(loiibled;- iltvwas.alllegist lation'should be'bfoug'ht^dowri;:: Would .bodies,,a£res;to ■ the •Act?- ■'■ Ho'-i had-r'good treasons ; : to; believe 'had;-;-beon?,'under~'consideration -for. sohie ;time.;,.'::: , ,;.:-":. ; .:: f :; : ;:-^-;'v:"'-;; .// ■-''-:- , .. •;.: