POTATO DISEASE.
IN TERST AT \C 0 N FER EN C E By Telegraph.—Press Association.— _ Sydney,.; August 18. • The Legislative Assembly : * discussed? the potato disease yesterday. Members urged the Government to take drastic action to prevent the spread of the blight. • ; , •">; • Adelaide, -August 18.. : Irish blight has been discovered in this State, but so - far - as -is known only - a limited area has been affected.: _ . / -'" f ' Melbourne, August 18. The inter-State Conference of Ministers of . Agriculture has opened. The chief subject of discussion is potato and fruit diseases, and the framing of legislation" to deal therewith. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14143, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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