NASSELLA TUSSOCK ACT?
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 7. Draft legislation providing for the setting up of Nassella tussock control boards has now been prepared. Representations are being made to have the draft approved and legislation placed on the Statute Book as soon as possible. Proposals of the draft follow closely the recommendations in the report submitted to the Goveminent a few months ago by Dr. 11. IL Allan, director of the botany division. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, ami Mr. K. P. Connell, fields superintendent in lor the Department of Agriculture. ’.I ue proposed Nassella Tussock Act would have a Dominion-wide bearing. The proposed legislation provides that powers be given to those concerned to form certain types of control boards. If boards are favoured by a majority, whether or when such boards would be formed, would be left to the discretion of a majority of those landholders who would be called upon to contribute to the cost of a board s opciations Part of the cost would be met by Government subsidy. Boards would have wide powers, as the exact way in which the problem of control can be handled has to be determined by experience.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 5
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198NASSELLA TUSSOCK ACT? Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 5
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