Additional evidence of the serious damage which fireblight is doing in fruit orchards in Canterbury was secured by Mr B. G. Goodwin, orchard instructor at Christchurch, on a recent visit to Akaroa. The disease was first noticed in a few Akaroa orchards last December, Mr Goodv/in told a reporter from "The Press" yesterday, but since that date it had spread so much that it now had a good hold on a great manv trees, and was attacking pears, apples, and quinces. There were no large orchardists in the district, Mr Goodwin said, but numerous small stands of fruit, trees, many of which had become infected m a L jthort .ppscp ol time.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21088, 13 February 1934, Page 10
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