Letter from Mr W. M'Cardis.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 199, 10 March 1905, Page 2

Letter from Mr W. M'Cardis.

teewtiag tattesMoß W dated from IririkeadM fa 'Mmry quire to movo'roTte Oonntybtatearisa. I wee oaoMrlo see Bte Ward re the matter on my m I had bat one day is great deal of which wm tobtti op m Land Conmunon mattes, flliihre ■hnold hold meeting* and pam meaiolions against the present boundaries, giving reasons fur thorn proposed in. •tend of the old onuMihsu on the maps. There u bat little time to spars, and the soonto-eetifei i*<4akan the bettor it wifi be io the iotanota of the eettiere. X do abt ChfakHtot I can reach Wellington in time to have a say in the matter, bnrl shall write, to Sir J. G. Ward urging thatJastioe be given te eettter* on 'the Kawhia watershed. The Land frnnmimfon held a short mee'ing in Wallingtoo at 2 p.m. on the 15th, left the same night for Christchurch, went on by train to Donedin, held a short sitting, left following morning, arrived in Invercargill at 8.15 p.m. Nearly all ice Commission are of the farming Some are fairly strong on the freehold whilst others are equally string on the leasehold. Mr faul is the only real town man, and h ide town opinions on land matters, but at the same time ho is, I think, a man open to conviction, and purposes dealing with all matter* in a broad and opm manner. I haae great hopes that much good will roautt from the investigations of the Com« mission. Settlers in the Kawhia district have always been in groat tear lest ragwort should spread from the old settled bush lands to the now, but evao at the worst we know very iitPe >f the matter. Fro-n the public •creets of the town of Invercargill to 40 miles north, there is one almost unbroken line of the fearful pest, and a ithing is being done to check its spread. Fields of rye gram in stook* re idy to thresh, with ragwort growing along the fence lin&» and no doubt cut and stocked with the grass seed! What can new settler* expect but that their new country will be seeded with the pest. Bo fa? as I can see there i* but one effectual way to prevent tba distribution of ragwort in grass seed, and that is not to allow any gras* seed ' to be cut until the crop i*~in*pected, ' and if ragwort or Canadian thistle* ‘ are found in the crop condemn if.”