BLACKBERRY AND GOATSRUE.
A GROWING MENACE. ■At Tuesday's meeting- of the Manawatu County Council a letter was received from the Department of Agriculture relative to the spread of goats’ rue and blackberry in the flax areas in the district and along the banks of the Manawatu river. From investigations made it would appear, stated the department, that, unless concerted action was taken by the local authorities concerned, there was grave danger of the-low-lying lands towards Foxton being over-run with goats’ rue at nu very distant date. From the Manawatu Gorge upwards a genuine effort was being made by private landholders and public authorities to bring this weed under control, but little could be done in this direction in the Manawatu County by reason of the fact that goats’ rue had not been declared a noxious weed. It was decided that, as the council was not satisfied that sufficiently -.strong measures were being adopted in the upper reaches, it was useless • for it to take steps to have the weed • eradicated in the lower areas in the meantime.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2515, 7 December 1922, Page 3
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177BLACKBERRY AND GOATSRUE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2515, 7 December 1922, Page 3
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