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noxious plants officer.
[Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries]
1.7.3 Noxious Plant Eradication - Temporary Employment
Under the government's public sector job creation programmes,
district noxious plant authorities are empowered
to undertake short-term weed eradi cati on projects through
the Department of Labour. On approved projects the
district authority is reimbursed for the cost of wages and
some of the overheads for the workers engaged through the
Department of Labour.
The only qual ifi cati on is that the projects offered must
be additional and labour-intensive and not reduce the
existing employment opportunities of spraying contractors
or staff levels of authorities.
1.7.4 Nassella Tussock
[Noxious Plants Authorities]
The North Canterbury and Marlborough
Boards derive most of their funds from
sidy, based on county contributions.
out control work on farms within
(Farmers meet 50% of the cost.)
Nassella Tussock
a Government sub­
The boards carry
their districts.
A 'county scheme', administered by 16 local authorities in
the South Island and 5 in the North, provides for farmers
to be reimbursed for 50% of the cost of undertaking approved
nassella tussock control programmes themselves. This
scheme also operates now in the North Canterbury and
Marlborough Nassella Tussock Board's districts, as a
complement to those Board's activities.
1.7.5 Australian Sedge
North Island local authorities administer a scheme which
pays 50% subs; dy to farmers towards the cost of controlling
Australian sedge by a range of approved control
methods.
A farmer arranges with the local county to carry out a MAF
approved control programme. On its completion, the
county pays the subsidy and is itself reimbursed by MAF.
[North Island Local Authorities]
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