THE WILLOW PEST.
Clearing the Creeks Out. The Waikato Hirer Board has been doing sumo good work in freeing the course of the .streams under its jurisdiction. Advices from the Treasury showthat £271! 5s *d had been spent in clearing and destroying willows in ; the Maungatawhiri Creek for about i six miles The Government grpnt 1 was for i'.'")o. I There was also a grant of i'.'ioO i for clearing willow* from creeks adi jaeent to Waikato liver and treating i with noxine. Fomo £:>f>:! 1 ">s Id j had been spent, n> follow :—Onehea creek i'ol lis Id, Awavoa creek
i'so, ISs (ill, Whangamariuo creek £lO2, Kangiriri creek £l7 11-, willow poison £OO 10s 7d, explosives, etc.. £32 ss lid. The sums spent in evcess of the grant- have boon advanced by tho Piver Board.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 216, 28 July 1914, Page 2
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136THE WILLOW PEST. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 216, 28 July 1914, Page 2
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