RAGWORT PEST.
• WIDESPREAD MENACE. All over the district local bodies are concerned with the spread of the ragwort weed. Even in town districts the nuisance is regarded as a menace, and the Matamata Town Board discussed the matter at a recent meeting. The subject was also ventilated at a meeting of the Matamata County Council on Friday. The chairman (Cr. J- W. Anderson) said that people had no idea of the seriousness of the menace. It had spread over hundreds of acres. In the Putaruru district it was spreading to an alarming extent. Cr. E. J. Darby : There is an unbroken mass of yellow blooms. Cr. Pohlen said the inspectors should see that the weed was cleared off, and not stop merely at sending notices.
The engineer (Mr. M. E. Fitzgerald) described the drastic methods that had been adopted in some parts of Taranaki, where the inspectors had given four days’ notice to clear ; at the end of that time the owners were brought before the Court, and gangs of men were put on to eradicate the weed.
Cr. Darby did not hold with what he considered as too-drastic methods, and which gave the inspectors too much power. The council decided to communicate with the inspectors on the matter.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 121, 18 February 1926, Page 6
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