FIRE BLIGHT.
MENACE TO WHOLE COUNTRY,
THE HAWTHORN MEDIUM,
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Mr Paltridge, president of the Auckland Central Fire Blight Committee, made a strong appeal to a meeting or the Executive of the Farmers' Union for co-operation to Secure legislation giving power to deal with hawthorn, in which the hold-over canker of fire blight is found. Mr Paltridge said: "I am really afraid it is too late as far as Aucklan-i is concerned, but it is a matter affecting the whole Dominion. Even if we Auckland people have to go out of business there is time to save the orchards in the South.'' Replying to a question Mr Paltridge said that the Agricultural Department thought that if hawthorn hedges were cut to about four feet it would suffice. Mr Izard. secretary of the committee, sari they liow had about two hundred people meting as inspectors. The meeting resolved that the Government be strongly asked to pass legislation, necessary to combat fire blight at the earliest possible moment. —Press Asen.
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Northern Advocate, 15 December 1920, Page 3
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