LOCAL BODIES CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9170, 13 June 1908, Page 2

LOCAL BODIES CONFERENCE.

Press Association. Auckland, June 11. The sins of the Government, in regard to the non-observance of the Notions Weeds Act, which it is rigidly enforces against private individuals in certain cases,' Were oudly denounced by the delegates. Idome of the speakers said that in many instances blackberries and other noxious ■weeds which setfclers. were called upon to clear, had spread, from the Government's own-railway line, and the case was cited byythe chairman (Mr Allen) of one settler who had dug'a trench alongside the railway line to keep ont the ..black-. berries" but without avail. Mr. Massey, M.P. said that not long ago, several settlers had been fined at Pnbekohe for. failng to clear their! laud of blackberries, whilst at the same time there were blackberries growing in the Courthouse enclosure.