Giant Snails Pest
Giant snails, with shells six to eight inches long, which were introduced info the Pacific islands by the Japanese to augment their food supply, are present in millions in both New Ireland and New Britain, according to Flight Sergeant J. R. Begg, Christchurch. Trip snails have multiplied to such an extent that they have created a menace to the food supplies in these places, he says. Especially they have attacked native food sources, pawpaws and the like, while plantations also have been attacked. Erosion in 1867 Far-sighted New Zealanders were giving “you-have-bcen-warned” messages concerning the menace of erosion while the colony was still in its. infancy. In a book published in London in 1887 the late Mr. E. Fairburn, father of Mr. Arthur Fairburn, of Mount Eden, wroft. "Threefourths of the best land in the North will remain unutilised or useless unless all the hills suitable for the purpose are terraced. It is melancholy to see the way in which the surface of the best part of the country is destroyed, never to be restored again, except at great expense, through ignorance or short-sightedness on the part of settlers . . . Far better and more paying in the end. it' the natural forest had been 'left standing, or only thinned out with judgment lor firewood and. fencing materials.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22425, 4 September 1947, Page 6
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219Giant Snails Pest Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22425, 4 September 1947, Page 6
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