INSECTS’ TOLL ON FOOD
YEAR IN BRITISH EMPIRE ENOUGH FOR 45,000,000 PEOPLE. SCOPE FOR SCIENTIFIC WORK. (United Dress Association —By Electrio Telegrapt) Copyright) Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. 2. “Every year insects destroy enough Empire food to feed 45,000,000 people,” declared Professor A. W- Hill, Director, of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, emphasising, during an address to; the British Association., the need for a larger army of scientific workers.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 3 September 1932, Page 9
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71INSECTS’ TOLL ON FOOD Hawera Star, Volume LII, 3 September 1932, Page 9
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