NOXIOUS WEED TROUBLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 8

NOXIOUS WEED TROUBLES

DEVONPORT COUNCILLORS COMPLAIN

PETROL TAX RECEIPTS

Some of these people have acres of .corse and no one interferes with them, while a man with only one bush on his small section is jumped on. I

• aii’t understand it. I and others have reported the matter time and time again,’* complained Cr. W. S. Campbell at the meeting of the Devonport Borough Council last evening. The trouble arose from a suggestion hy the North Devonport Ratepayers’ Association that the time was opportune to have the noxious weeds inspector at work. The association submitted that the Takapuna Borough should be invited to act conjointly with Devonport and declare pennyroyal a noxious weed. The Agricultural Department is to be invited to define what powers the borough has. The Mayor, Mr. E. Aldridge, wanted fennel and other plants classed as noxious weeds also.

The receipt of a cheque for £248, ;ue» the borough’s share of the petrol tax, led the town clerk to explain t hat so far the borough would get £l4O in excess of the estimated revenue. Several councillors thought t hat this money should be set aside to tLnish the concreting of Victoria Road. This may be done next year.

"The weeds that we cut down a • ouple of months ago are now seven feet high again. I have never seen anything like it,” commented the Mayor when several applications were made to have weeds cut down in the -trects. A heavy motor-grader is to bo used in an effort to batter down the weeds.

After much wearying correspondence about nuisances caused by keeping fowls near Cheltenham Beach, the council has resolved that the person mostly concerned be notified to abate the nuisance or his licence to keep poultry will be cancelled. The use of the Domain was granted the Defence Department for parades of troops, provided that the cricket pitches or games were not interfered with.

The Mayor reported that the Public Works Department would not agree that treating paths with covering material was work that might be classed as relief works entitled to rank for subsidy of £1 for £1 on local-body expenditure. However, an application is to be made to the Government.

The design, submitted by the engineer. for concrete standards to carry lights on the waterfront was approved; it embodies the design of the tower supporting the Alison Clock and secures uniformity in decoration.