FIRE BLIGHT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 December 1920, Page 8

FIRE BLIGHT

HAWTHORN HEDGES HOLDERS

OF THE CANKER

GOVERNMENT URGED TO

LEGISLATE

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.^ AUCKLAND, Doc. 15. Mr. Paltridge, president of the Auckland Central Fire Blight Committee, made a strong appeal to a meeting of the executive of the Farmers' Union for co-operation to secure legislation giving power to deal with (hawthorn in which, it is held the canker of fire blight is found. Mr. Paltridge safd: "I am really afraid that it is too late as far as Auckland is concerned, but it fs a matter affecting the whole Dominion. Even if we Auckland people have to go' out. of business, there is time to save the orchards of the south." i j Replying to a question, Mr. Paltridge said that the Agricultural Department thougirt that ..tf hawthorn hedges "were cut to about four feet it would suffice. Mr. Izard, v secretary of the committee. said that they now had about two hundred people acting as inspectors. The meeting resolved that the Government be strongly asked to pass the legislation, necessary to combat fire blight at the earliest possible moment.