FIREBLIGHT IN NELSON
DOMESTIC TREES INFECTED
(Special to thß "Evening Post.") . NELSON, October 30. It has been established that fireblight has made its appearance in Nelson, pear trees in several domestic orchards at Wakapuaka being affected. A meeting of the Waimea Fireblight Committee . vas held today to consider ways and means of dealing with the outbreak in the best interests of the fruit-growing industry. Mr. J. 11. Thorp, orchard instructor for the Nelson area, stated today that specimen branches of pear trees from a domestic orchard at Wakapuaka, nbout five-miles from the city, which were'sent to the Plant Research Station :it Pahnerston North for examination were found to be infected by the fireblight organism, erwinia amylovora. A survey of the position is being made by inspectors of the Horticulture Division, who will at the same timo instruct owners of fruit trees as to their responsibility in connection with the control and destruction of the infected material.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 15
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