Rabaul’S Mystery Weed
p. 88 · Read in the full issue
No Name, But It Smells!
AT the first meeting of the newly reconstituted Rabaul Advisory Council on September 11, members directed the attention of the Department of Agriculture to a weed that was spreading and permeating the town with an un pleasant odour.
No one knew the name of it; it was referred to as The Weed.
A government member of Council said that an Agricultural officer had the matter in hand and the weed had not spread since he had been on the job. Non-official members said that that was not good enough.
Mr. D. Barrett suggested that it would be a good thing to find out the name of the pest, and have it gazetted as a Noxious Weed.