PREVENTING FIREBLIGHT.
ACTION IN CANTERBURY
For the purpose of preventing firohlight, Canterbury fruitgrowers are urging that all hawthorn hedges ho cut down to a height of 4f'., and a remit from the association for consideration at the Dominion Conference will ask that this bo made law. Mr. E. Freeman, who moved the renin;, said that they should do all possiblo to prevent fireblight from spreading to th« orchards. The department did not seem to be taking very much trouble about it in the North Island, (or little or nothing had been done about the destruction of the hedges there. It was during the flowering season of tlio hedges that the danger was greatest. Mr. L. Paynter, orchard instructor, explained that if hawthorn hedges were cut down they would bloom very little. Tlio planting of more hawthorn hedges was already prohibited by law. Asked later about the outbreak near Kaikoura, Mr Paynter said that no reappearance of fireblight would be in evidence until October next, when the hedges would flower. The hedge where the outbreak had been discovered was being cut down.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20228, 12 April 1929, Page 12
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181PREVENTING FIREBLIGHT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20228, 12 April 1929, Page 12
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