The history of Queensland is beingaltered by a little grub with an outsize in appetites (writes “A.C.8.,” in the Sydney “Mail”). Cactoblastis has already eaten its way through 8,450,000 acres of pear in Queensland, and has, therefore, added a new province to the northern State. The greater portion of this vast area of land is going into production, and many thousands of acres were selected last year under the tenure dedesigned lor mixed fanning. Towns which’ before the advent of cactol.lastis were practicaly dead have taken on new life. Cactoblastis castoruin, to give it its full name, has never deviated from the patli of virtue; it lias carried out the work for which it was imported and destroyed prickly pear alone.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1933, Page 2
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