NOXIOUS WEEDS.
Replying to a deputation at Napier, the Ban. Thos. Mackenzie said a crisis had been readied in the history of some districts with noxious weeds. He pointed out to those who were advocating that the Act be suspended the serious results likely to follow. Immediately a district was gazetted-as weed infected the product* coming from that locality would bo greatly handicapped. Seed, chaff, and even grain would be looked at askance, and as a Seed Purity Bill would be probably placed on the Statute Book ( at an early date, seeds, unless properly cleaned, would come within the scope of that measure's operations. The problem was a difficult one, and it was receiving his most careful consideration with a view to endeavouring to qvolye a "modus operandi" which would in a degree! meet the situation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 4
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136NOXIOUS WEEDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 4
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