FIGHTING LOCUST PEST
CONFERENCE DECISIONS
(Received September 19. 7.15 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. Sept. 18 The International Locust Conference has accepted an invitation from the Egyptian Government to hold the next conference in Cairo in 1936. It has adopted resolutions for delimiting the locust outbreak areas, for studying conditions at temporary field laboratories and for preparing for locust invasions in advance by inter-Govern-mental co-operation in meteorological services.
Further experiments also are recommended for developing aircraft control, especially by spraying locust flights with sodium arsenite dust.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21910, 20 September 1934, Page 11
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