RAGWORT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 376, 10 November 1932, Page 4

RAGWORT

ARRESTING SPREAi COUNTY CHAIRMAN REPORI ON RECENT COMBINED 1 DEPUTATION 1 DEPARTMENT TO ASSlSlJ The necessity for the controli the spread of ragwort was raisj the meeting of the Rotorua Col Council yesterday when a letter M the Matamata County Council the council to support a deputatiJ be sent to the Minister of Agjl ture to ask that supplies of eqJ chlorate be made available to fJ ers at net cost was read. | « The chairman said that the-ijJ tation had already visited WellfiJ and that he had represented the'cl ty and been ehosen to introdueej subject and had suggested thats operative action between ihe AgJ tural Department and the bodiesl I cerned be taken and that the deJ ment supply "sodium chlorate al quested. He had also TecommeJ to the department that it exJ Oontrol of the supplies of the J cator and hy standardising thel make supplies available to the fal at the lowest cost possible, 1 The chairman said that it apJ ed to him that the department 1 been drifting along with the ideal the spread was now no worse tH ^as 20 years ago and he had poi out that had the necessary stel cheek the spread been taken atl time, much expenditure now ti Sary would have been avoided. 8 At the conclusion of the del tion's representations the DirJ General of Agriculture (Mr. 1 Reakes) had given -an assuraacei the matter would be consideredl A view of making supplies- of sci Chlorate at a reasonable cost ti able to farmers, 1 Tpibute to the efforts of the » rua County Council in endeavci to check the spread of the menatl heen expressed at the meeting H partmental offieers. * I Mr. Ford considered that tll jsurance given by the Directoil eral should not be lost siglxt o!| also that the co-operation of thi ive La"nds Department should ti tainedoin an endeavour to clesl district lands. | The action of the chairman ii presenting the council on the S tation was approved by the couni the motion of Cr. A. L. Keith, 1