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Evening Star, Issue 3836, 10 June 1875, Page 2

The Peninsula District Thistle Prevention Ordinance, introduced by MrToLMIB at the re'idest of residents in that district, went through Committee _ the other evening. If the settlers in the Peninsula choose to burden themselves with the liabilities under the Ordinance, it is perhaps, their own business. The measure is not to < come into force except on “petitionof a majority of the electors for the time being on the roll of the said Peninsula District.” It appears that there is no power to compel the Maori Reserves to be kept clear, and as these reserves are of considerable extent the efforts of the settlers will be of very slight effect in keeping down thistles. There can be no doubt that to all intents and purposes the Ordinance will remain a dead letter. Practically it cannot be enforced. Any energetic settler, unless surrounded by bush reserves, can, if he chooses, keep down, at a trifling cost, thistles in their early stages. Those who will not take the trouble punish themselves, and should be made to suffer. Mr Touiie’s Ordinance will not succeed in reaching them.