NOXIOUS WEEDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 349, 29 March 1910, Page 6

NOXIOUS WEEDS.

To the Editor. Sir, —The office of inspector is not at all times a pleasant one, but if an inspector understands his dutiea he ought to discern between those who are nefligent and those who are doing tli»ir best. Farmers know, better even than the inspector himself, that it is to their own interest to keep the weeds down. I have lately »een many respectable names in the paper who are also practical fanners, and no doubt many of them were hindered in their work by being fined:. I have also heard of a case that made my blOod boil. A farmer of over 70 years of age, who had wo iked like a Briton, helped by hi&' wife and daughters, has been "pulled." The late inspector, who is a gentleman, waa quite satisfied, and he also made allowance for cases of bad health or old age. The present inspector seems bent on showing his own importance by bringing honest men Tip to Court whose omy crime is that they are not ao young as they were. You might as well fine a blind man because he cannot see. How long the farmers of New Zealand are going to submit to this tyranny is hard to say.—l am, etc., ' JUSTICE AND CLEAN LAND.