PRICKLY PEAR.
SPREADING ALARMINGLY. »Y CABLE- PBIBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT BRISBANE, July 17. Air. Payne, chairman of the prickly pear commission, states that prickly pear has infested Queensland to such an extent that it has spread over freeholds and Crown lands totalling fifty million acres, and was continuing to spread at the rate of 327,328 acres per annum. Millions of acres served by railways had been rendered almost useless from the points of view of settlement and revenue production.—• Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 July 1924, Page 8
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80PRICKLY PEAR. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 July 1924, Page 8
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