BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1919, Page 5

BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

SUNDRY RECOMMENDATIONS, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At a meeting of the Board of Agriculture the proposed regulations regarding ticks on cattle were considered, and it was decided to recommend that no stock be shipped from the North Island to the South Island unless they have been examined by an inspector and declared to be free from the tick infestation. After discussion of the method under Which contributions are levied from .farmers under the Rabbit Nuisance Act, it was decided to recommend to the Government that the contribution be a rate per acre instead of on rateable value.

It was decided to recommend the Government to amend the law relating to rabbit-iproof fences, so that in any district which a magistrate, after hearing evidence, might declare to be a rabbitinfested district, any owner or occupier Who wished to erect a rabbit-proof fence to protect himself Bhould be able to compel his neighbor to pay half the cost. A resolution was carried urging on the Government the necessity for bringing in an amendment to the present law compelling tie eradication of blackberry on the better private land. It was pointed out that the provision regarding cutting blackberry contained in the noxious weeds Act, 1908, really rendered any attempt to compel the. destruction of blackberry by legal enforcement absolutely nugatory.

The luestion of the export of stud stock from the Dominion to South America was brought before the Board, and it was decided to ascertain the prospects of the steamer service to the Argentine, in order that the shipping of stock might be resumed as early as possible. . r