FARMERS AND NOXIOUS WEEDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2032, 23 September 1919, Page 2

FARMERS AND NOXIOUS WEEDS.

THE Fanners’ Conference'last week passed the following remit: —“That in the opinion of this conference, noxious weeds have become such a nuisance as to warrant a complete change in the provisions for their control, and would advise the following:—That legislation be passed providing that, on the petition of one or more local bodies or a proportion of the ratepayers of , any district, a Noxious Weeds Board

may. be set up consisting of local representatives, either c by election . or nomination, with, a representative of the department. The Board to have powers including the following:—(1) Classifying and dividing the district under their control in areas (not necessarily continuous) such as, say, (a) clean, * (b) fairly clean, (c) bad, but reelaimable, (d) extremely bad. (2) .Differential rating powers cither for purposes of providing funds for management for the work of weed suppression or as security for loans to be raised for the same purpose. , (3.) To enforce the control or eradication of weeds in any pay! of the area under their control, either'by the, owner or holder. (4) To, on failure of above, carry out the work at cost of owner or holder, or out of rates or loan. (5) To obtain throng! i the Court an order empowering the taking over on valuation any land which it has been proved to the satisfaction of .the Court that the practical reclamation for farming purposes is impossible. (()). And for the board to undertake the suppression by afforestation or other means.”