CORSE AND BLACKBERRY
ERADICATION OF PESTS. RESEARCH COMMITTEE’S REPORT (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Hon. H. Atmore, Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research, has been supplied with a full report by Mr 6. Ghirtcliffe, chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, dealing with the progress of research activities during the past three months. The report deals with the importation of a gorse parasite, Apion Ulicis, for the acclimatisation of which a temporary Held station has been established at Mount Flagstaff, near Dunedin. The mortality in these insects was very high during transportation, and in future it is proposed that importations be made on living gorse plants. •Similar difficulties have attended thej work in the acclimatisation of the blackberry insect, Coraebus Bubi. These are imported on infested blackberry and rose stocks, and although about 20 per cent of the beetles emerge their mortality rate in -specially heated insectaries is high. However, some of the insects have attacked blackberries- and the results of this infestation should become apparent in November or December, The report also goes -on to deal with research into the mineral contents of pastures, wheat growing, afforestation, pig raising etc.
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Northern Advocate, 18 November 1929, Page 2
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