POTATO PESTS.
BLIGHT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph.—Press Ausoclatlon.-Oopsrrlsht.l Adelaide, August 18. Irish blight has been discovered in this State, but so far as is known only a limited area is affected. Sydney, August 18. The State Assembly discussed the potato disease. Members urged the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Perry, to take drastic action to prevent the spread of the blight, and the Minister promised tovdo so. Melbourne, August 18. The Inter-State Conference of Ministers' for Agriculture has opened. The chief subject of discussion is potato and frait diseases, and the framing of legislation to deal there-, with.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 590, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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