THE FRUIT FLY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 114, 6 February 1908, Page 2

THE FRUIT FLY.

1 , NO OCCASION - ]<"0R ALARtf Mr. W. 'A. Boucher,' Government Pomologist, is ' confident, of successfully >' coping' with the fruit fly outbreak discovered at Devonport last week Ovritcs our Auckland ' correspondent) Further investigations, says Mr. Boiichfir, confirm the previous opinion i that: there is no occasion for malaria from a i fruit-grower's point' of 'view.:-'Deyonport is practically .isolated from the; commercial fniit-groTviiig centres in the neighbourhood of Auckland. . In the : Devonport gardens there is hot a great deal of fruit at the pro~| sent'time which is attractive, to.the fruit fly, so that it: seems' probable that the necessary s supervision for'lthe suppression of the pest will be comparatively easy.Car'oful investigation, according ,to.Mr. Boucher, at Clicl-, sea, Birkenhoad, and Niirthcote has revealed nothing in the shape of fruit fly infection :iri those 'localitiesTho' possibility'of any flies Still,on the wing removing to a fresh locality and /carrying infection afield is very remote. " In. this respect the outbreak at Devonport closely resembles: that at Napier lost season, when the circumstances were almost identical. 1 Tho fact that there" has been no recurrence of the pest at Napier, will bo reassuring to, the commercial fruit-growers and others interested in i the cultivation of fruit in the Auckland district.