ROOT ROT.
STRAWBERRIES MENACED. GROWERS PERTURBED. Wet and humid conditions have caused great concern to Auckland strawberry growers, and in several localities root rot has developed.
In a plot in Gladstone Road, Northcote, a new grower has been troubled with the disease in his plants, and has suffered considerable loss. Some three years ago root rot destroyed a large bed in the Northcote district, but it was hoped that it had been stamped out. The rainfall for the present month has been considerably above normal, and the damp atmosphere has led to the appearance of blight. This is not confined to the North Shore strawberry growing districts, for it has been observed at Papatoetoe and Avondale.
A principal of one of the Auckland firms which handle the fruit stated this morning that the recurrence of root rot was causing some concern, but was not of such dimensions as to cause undue anxiety in regard to the prospective crop.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 282, 28 November 1929, Page 10
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