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Shannon News, 31 July 1923, Page 2

One of the delegates at the agricultural conference expressed the opinion that ip 20 years, the value of. land in the Dominion, would depreciate by many millions of pounds ; [ sterling unless, immediate and drastic: I steps were taken to eradicate or check, 1 the growth of noxious weeds. Reports from, the Morrinsville district state that the roads are sitill in a frightful condition—so bad that vehicular traffic is almost at a standstill in some directions. Shopkeepers in Morrinsville complain of slack business, due to the inability of country people to get into town. The settlers on the Tahuna road three years ago raised a loan of £2OOO, which, with Government subsidy, they expended, in metalling their road. The metal was very inferior, and settlors state that this has now sunk completely out of sight.