FRUIT FLY'S RAVAGES.
t INCREASING IN AUSTRALIA. >f| ' s| NO EFFECTTVE REMEDT. * SYDNEY, June 1. >f I The Fruitgrowers' Conference resolved -s' to ask the Government to make an effort n to persuade the New Zealand Govern- >- ment to accept certificates from packers' it sheds which guaranteed to pack fruit :-1 from orchards with clean certificates. nl Speakers strongly urged the need for ie ' stringently enforcing the destruction of is fallen fruit. oi*\ delegate stated that r- ] owing to the enormous amount of fallen n fruit allowed to rot last year the fruit :e' fly is now worse than ever. Another I speaker said that unless fruitgrowers e-1 were compelled to comply with the reguc-! lations they would soon have no 6oft s- J fruit to send to market. Others stated it that flytraps" and arsenic had not proved y effective, and no really effective remedy 12 . had vet been discovered, p! It was decided to ask the Agricultural Is . Department to continue experiments in s- j the direction of diseo'Vring an effective t, remedy.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) h "
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1922, Page 6
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