The Noxious Weeds Bill
'' " The Noxious Weeds Bill, which is • rb b« iotroduced next session, will require trimming of hedges and the grubbing up and identrocticn of weeds. The local India's will be required to administer the A.ct t mmd the Governor will proclaim trom time to time dates in each , di^trict upon;, which the. work must have been carried out by the property-owners, failing which it will be effected by the toeal bodies at the defaultiog land' owners' . expense. Owners wills onlj be required to clear, a > certain portion of the weeds upon their, property at one time, the wort to go on' from time to timo till C ill hive been eradicated. The ' weeds ' in the scbednte of the BUI will be the . sw*et bru»v gorse. Californian thistle, Batburst burr, Noongara burr, burdock, and blackberry, to which the Governor nay -add others by proclamation." It is to be hoped ' th* Bill will provide for dealing with, cases where noxious weeds are growing upon public roads, in the direction of making the local body re* spbnstbie for the destruction of the same. -Post. „„:.-.. ."> ,-:-,■:.. ■ ; ;
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 127, 15 April 1893, Page 3
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184The Noxious Weeds Bill Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 127, 15 April 1893, Page 3
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