SPREAD OF FIRE BLIGHT.
A DANGEROUS "SPECIMEN." (By Telegraph.—Press" Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Officers of the Agricultural Department are concerned about the action of fruitgrowers in the Nelson district, who asked someone in the North Island to send him a specimen of wood affected with fireblight in order to see what it was like, end guard against its introduction. Wood was sent unprotected by chemicals. The Agricultural Department consider this is a good way to spread the disease. Application should have been made through the proper channels. They desire it to be known that prosecutions will follow if persons ignore the regulations as to the snread of this disease.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 292, 7 December 1920, Page 4
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