MENACE OF FIRE BLIGHT.
A REPORTED REMEDY.
NO OFFICIAL INFORMATION; [BY TELEGRAPH. OW CORRESPONDENT.]
WELLINGTON.- Wednesday. Inquiries were made to-day regarding a report telegraphed from Auckland that the Department of Agriculture had accepted a specific for fire blight, discovered by a Wairongomai farmer. The authorities here, including the Minister for Agriculture and the official head of the department, stated to-day that they did not understand the report. They were not aware that any Waikato farmer had a remedy for fire blight and, in any case, no "new scheme for dealing with the blight or with the hawthorn question had been adopted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17845, 28 July 1921, Page 6
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101MENACE OF FIRE BLIGHT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17845, 28 July 1921, Page 6
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