CALIFORNIA N THISTLE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2449, 30 April 1915, Page 8

CALIFORNIA N THISTLE

HARASSING PROSECUTIONS. The hardships imposed upon ceitain farmers by the obligation to 'cut Californian thistle were brought tinder tlie Hotico of tlie Prime Minister yesterday .by a deputation representing districts in tlie King Country and Upper Rangitikei district?. 'The deputation was introduced by Afr> li. W. Smith, M.P. Tho deputation ■ urged that the cutting of the thistle was a very costly business in rough country, though easily ■practicable m arable land. Further, .they expressed the ,generally lield opinion* based on Experience, that the thistle will in time die out, especially if inoculated witli parasites,- in ' a. "few years. They did 3iot agree-that cutting did mudi good. They suggested that the Government'should' removo . this weed from Schedule 2 and put it in Schedule 3 of the Act, thus leaving it to_ local bodies to- decide whether tlie thistle sliould be cut or not. Tho deputation took especially strong exception to tho harassing of settlers by prosecutions long after the time for cut-1 ting tlie weed "had passed. ' ' The Prime Minister'expressed his entire sympathy with settlers in their difficulties iu compjyng with the Act. He Jiad, he said, issued instructions that at this season no prosecutions should be instituted without reference to him. He said that Parliament would probably be asked to amend the Noxious Weeds Act next session, and-lie thought the best possible solution of the difficulty would bo to give local bodies power to decide whether thistle should be' cut in \ particular district or not.

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