SEVERE RAVAGES OF MOTH PEST

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21806, 11 June 1936, Page 21

SEVERE RAVAGES OF MOTH PEST

♦ CONCERN OF WAIMAIRI COUNCIL ItITEB TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE *1 believe that the damage done by Pi diamond-backed moth runs, not y> hundreds or thousands, but xnilsaid Mr G. G. Gardner, chairOf ihe Waimairi County Council. J • meeting of the council last even= The council had been discussing I •• taeasures which had been taken V the Department of Agriculture to tndkate the white butterfly pest. I *T think it will be a pity, seeing that I * department has been able to do about the white butterfly,” JJ* «r Gardner, “if we do not ask ' 2*J**bat can be done to combat the • Of the diamond-backed moth . Jg* turnip crops.” . ail dead now,” remarked Mr *• ” Spencer, when a letter from the about white butterflies the council. The letter that very large consignments of F'2*®w*tte r fly parasites had been libareas between Rangiora Anpoa. and in many other parts • South Island. been told on very good an official of the de—that more parasites have EHStterated in Waimairi than in county,” said Mr Spencer. llaS Gardner expressed appreciation ■Hf «Wl done by the department. it was decided to write the department, adding for information about the ■BPPwMeked moth.