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“y We m of did that it is necessary in the interests. of the Riles 
to gra 
J? to 
this pest of a Prickly Pear ’ at once. As means to this end 
we ame it advisable that there should be a special Act 
provi 
« (a) “That the aipe = m districts be proclaimed under this 
Aet e districts of Graaff-Reinet, Cradock, 
Gonersát "Fast, Bedford, Jansenville, “Aberdeen, 
Willowmore, Uitenh Oudtshoorn, as 
as any other distriets whieh may be e E 
* (5.) That a Commission under the Act be appointed 
the Government in each rode: distriet, 
persons, 
two of whom to be nominated. by the Government, 
one of these E to be the Civil Commi: 
the district, and three persons to be by 
the Divisional Council. 
* (e.) The Act to provide for the complete extirpation of 
the Priekly Pear. In each proclaimed distriet the 
Commission appointed to insist under penalties that 
arbitration to be to him for it, Then this 
and to be either cleaned at the ex] t of the 
Government, then sold, or sold with a special 
stipulation that it shall be cleaned sanitary by 
the si : “3 2. 2 «^ 
ii We strongly 1 that whatev er it may be co. e 
o be done at once 
ai “Yoke Committee ive also taken the evidence s the Hon. Mr. Van 
Rhyn upon the subject of the poisonous plant na med * Melk Bosch,'* 
we regret that our information is so limited, as to prevent our being 
abie to do more than recommend that the atten tion of sities ari be 
called to the subject, with a view to its being investigated by the 
Agricultural Department. 
* A. WILMOT, 
z Chairman.” 
From the Minutes of the Committee we extract the following, bearing 
m m best means to be adopted for getting rid of the the’ Prickly 
we then dig out 
piled in stacks from fifteen om ^x fire or six hundred yards a = 
long, and 15 to 20 feet in height and diameter, so that =. i 
be eas ily r P 
m either side. 
these large fie for about a year, the outside leaves, 
probably have taken root, are taken off and thrown on the top 
[* Probably Gomphocarpus fruticosus, Br.] a 
