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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17857, 1 September 1923, Page 3

Sir James Wilson writes to the Feilding "Star" : "Might I ask you to let your readers who may be ansious to get the little steel grey or black ladybird, which we hope will save our gum trees, know that fit the moment they can procure them from th© giant blue gum just fallen in the Manse paddock at Bulls. Those gums were planted about *lO years ago by tiio lat£< Rev. Mr Douil, and throve well. "When they began io show signs of the scale I put a tew ladybirds on them, and to-day, as they were lying on the ground, I found several on the fit'st pieoe of bark I detached. Judging by this, there must be great numbers on the trees, and they should be gathered. The ladybird seemed much more active than I anticipated, for the season has scarcely advanced far enough for them to more freely. Unless those infects are taken away or able to fly to otber food, they will be starved in about a fortnight. lam glad to note many of the gums which havo been so blackened of late aro showing signs of life now, and fresh leaves are shooting out-."