SEEDS CONTROL BILL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1226, 7 September 1911, Page 8

SEEDS CONTROL BILL.

SOME I>OINTB DISCUSSED. Discussing tho Salt' of Seeds Control Bill at a meeting at Sandon, llr. J. G. AVilson gave it as liis opinion that the Bill would servo a Rood purpose. It was, ho said, high timo merchants and farmers alike had protection such as that'afforded under tho Fc-od.Act for instance. 'While recognising that farmers needed, a safeguard from unscrupulous merchants, he pn.id' a compliment to the almost perfrct methods adapted for cleaning seeds by merchants in Palmerston and district. The Bill,'as it stood, however, t was not satisfactory- Clause G, which provided that ."tho buyer of any seed sold for sowing .may, at any'timo within seven days after the receipt thereof, take, in tho "presenco of two witnesses, a samplo of such seed and forward it to tho Biologist for testing," would never work. There was nothing to. prevent' an unscrupulous buyer under those, conditions from obtaining good seed, emptying the bags and refilling • them with inferior seed, and then getting .two unsuspecting witnesses to sign a certificate. Tho meetin"' discussed other defects and decided to\ask Mr. Newman, M.P., to support the Bill subject to certain alterations being made. ;