BLACKBERRY PEST
PROPOSED USE OF INSECTS.
GRANT FOR RESEARCH. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 27. In connection with the research that is being conducted into noxious weeds at the Cawthron Institute, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research some time ago forwarded an application for a further grant from the Empire Marketing Board for 13ie erection of laboratories and large insectaries at Nelson. Advice has now been received that the board has made a .firant of £1333 for the purpose named. This amount will be subsidised by the Government, and will enable £2OOO to be expended on the necessary buildings. One of the main purposes of the grant is to permit of the construction of a very large phosphor-bronze insectary designed especially for the breeding of insects which attack the blackberry. Dr. J. R. Tillyard will shortly be receiving likely parasites from the South of France" and other £arts of the world, and the investigations be will carry out by the aid of these insectaries will enable comprehensive attacks to be made upon one of the worst problems which face the farmer — the blaekberty pest. ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10903, 28 April 1927, Page 3
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