PEST ON COCOANUT TREES.
LOOKING FOR A REMEDY. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. 1 SUVA, Oct. ]4. It was announced to-day that the Government had arranged with Mr. Ward, the well-known New Guinea explorer, to proceed to Ceylon with the object of securing a great many specially chosen birds which scientists assert will destroy the Levuana moth on the cocoanut trees. Mr. Ward hopes to return to Fiji within six or seven months with a large shipment of the prescribed birds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19156, 23 October 1925, Page 9
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80PEST ON COCOANUT TREES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19156, 23 October 1925, Page 9
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