BLACKBERRY-PEST.
PROSPECTS OF CONTROL. (Per Press Association.) NELSON,, January 18. Addressing the teachers’ summer school, Dr, Tillyard (Chief Biologist of the Cawthron Institute) said that prickly pear in Australia was in process of destruction. He was confident that within 20 years prickly pear would, be a curiosity. Similar success, he hoped , would be met with in the fight against New Zealand’s noxious weeds* especially blackberry. “I can see my way through, and, barring accidents, I believe that within 20 years’ time we shall be in control of blackberry,” he said.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 84, 19 January 1928, Page 6
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