RAGWORT MENA[?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 389, 25 November 1932, Page 4

RAGWORT MENA[?]

■Rotorua coim ^■COUNCIL sCONFERS ^ DEPARTMENTAL OFFICERS. ^■•OlifBREHENSlVE SGpi ^^With a view to' envolvi^ H^ptive measfires for co> ragwort menace in the] ^^Krict, members of the j ^■unty Council on Wednesi conferred with Mr.' F. [ ^Histant district engineer, ; H. L. Newson, district $ ^■L'tor and Mr. C. Dalgli^ .'uctor for the Deparl; culture. ■nwas pointed out that thj. ^■-assumed such proportioi; impossihle for the ( ^■^quately to cope with itj resources. In view o}{ ■t the Government has de* ^Bke availahle relief Iahtur Wm. 5 scheme for the putj B^aring ragwort inf ested land, Bicided to make representati Kxe Government advocatingae »ion of this assistance- * Foilowing the meetihg, a' k{ drafted which is to be forwa; the Minister of Agriculture, ti C. E. Macmillan. The letterj the - foilowing (recommendatios "That the Minister of Agri be urged to arrange for eraf ragwort in Rotorua County ( foilowing liries: — fl) That Crown Lands be r,v establishing unemployed un;i«' ; he controi of the Public DepA and a grant of | made availabir to the Departp cover cost of establishment ofi tools, transport and sodiUffi :i ( 2 ) That th e D ep artment o{ Affairs, undertake the clear Native Lands, Native uner lahour to be used where possi (3) That the attention of ti way Departriient be drawn toi on railway property and thati iate steps be taken to clear sa (4) That the attention of ti Forest Department be taken t wort on fire-breaks etc., ar immediate steps be taken ti same. (5) That the Lands Depart: urged to consider the advisat: using sodium chlorate or i substitute to clear and rect abandoned Crown sections, considered that in many ii abandoned sections can be i back to a state of productivitt above method at a less cost ti required to open up new Gm for settlement). (6) That the clearing of 6 lands in the Rotorua basin ti taken by the Rotorua County and that a Government gran! be made to provide sodium c: (This to be used only iri i i cases where oceupiers are ra i find any portion of cost-) \ The County Council has arranged to place approximal unemployed men on this wort iately and settlers are beic to work in co-operation i council and Mr. Newson, li of Stock. If supplies of chlorate are not available, ti are to be cut. It is absolutely beyond th of this council to provide f of transport, tools and chlorate to clear Crown and Lands and If anytliing cf a nature is to be accomplislie: essential that the immediate! ation of all those concerned tained. The council therefore look and trusts that it will have y port in hringing the position before that varibus Goverw: partments iriterested."