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Noxious Weeds in New Zealand. 



the prohibition in no way applies to the throug"h traffic — 

 in transit through Germany — in the articles prohibited in 

 that country by the law. Such goods must not remain 

 within the Customs limits for more than the time necessary 

 for ordinary forwarding purposes, and cannot, therefore, be 

 place in bonded warehouses. Another point to which atten- 

 tion is called is that, for example, smoked rolled hams have 

 been wrongly turned back at the Custom House. The pro- 

 hibition only applies to preparations of meat cut small, such 

 as hashed, minced, and forced meat, brawn, etc. 



Noxious Weeds in New Zealand. 



The Board have received through the Colonial Office a 

 copy of the " Noxious Weeds Act, 1900," recently sanctioned 

 in New Zealand. 



This Act provides that occupiers of land in that colony 

 shall clear their land of noxious weeds — viz., sweet briar, 

 blackberry, and the Canadian thistle, unless the two former 

 form hedges or live fences, in which case they are to be kept 

 properly trimmed, and the refuse removed and destroyed. 

 Hedges of gorse and broom must similarly be kept trimmed. 

 Power is given to local authorities to declare certain other 

 plants, including, amongst others, broom, gorse, and rag- 

 wort, to be noxious weeds, and when so declared they must 

 also be exterminated. 



The Act also prohibits the sale of noxious seed, except 

 gorse seed to be sown, with the permission of the local 

 authorities, for forage or hedges ; and of any seed which has 

 not been thoroughly dressed to remove all noxious seeds. 

 Among noxious seeds are included the blackberry, broom, 

 "burdock, burr clovers, dodder, dock, fat-hen, gorse, ox-eye 

 daisy, sweetbriar, thistles, wild turnip, and ragwort. 



Threshing machines, chaff cutters, and clover dressers 

 which are used on more than one farm are required to be 

 thoroughly cleaned out after being used at each farm. 



