NOXIOUS WEEDS ON NATIVE LANDS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8251, 4 October 1906, Page 5

NOXIOUS WEEDS ON NATIVE LANDS.

DISCUSSION AT THE FARMERS' UNION MEETING.

At the meeting of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, held yesterday, reference was m&de to noxious weeds being allowed to grow unchecked on native lands.

The Chairman (Mr W. Perry) said that the wends were allowed to spread with great rapidity on native lands, often to the detriment of adjoining properties. He moved "that this branch urge the Government to deal with and tring in to occupation tbe native lands of the colony, as they are heaoming a hot-bed of noxious weeds." Mr J. Colway said that the mooting had no evidence before it to show that native lands were overrun with noxioua weeds any more than other lands, and the action oc the branoh in bringing the matter especially under the notice of the Government was not called for. Mr W. H. Beethom took the opportunity to say that there were certain weed 1 ? classed as noxious weeds which he did not think deserved (hat title. Ho took as an example the "Canadian thistle." This thistle, he said, was considered a noxious weoci in New Zealand, but in England if; waa allowed to remain on farms. It. only required a little careful farming to root out the weed. He condemned the blackberry attd urged farmers to make every effort to eradicate that weed. Mr Perry's motion was eventually carried unanimously.

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