PLANT DISEASES
EFFORTS TO COMBAT MYCOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (Received September 19, 7.15 p.m.) British Wirelesß RUGBY, Sept. 18 The third Imperial Mycological Conference, which is held every five years and attended by delegates from all the Dominions and many of the | Colonies, was opened to-day in South ; Kensington. Reports were presented dealing with ; the progress of the fight against plant • diseases carried on from the Imperial i Mycological Institute at Kew. J Each part of the Empire joins in | providing the necessary finance for the j institute, the importance of the work I of which is shown by estimates that i'virus diseases in potatoes in Britain, ! excluding the Irish Free State, cause a wastage of £4,000,000 a year. Losses in Australia from crop diseases, excluding insects, were estimated at £7,000,000 in 1920. Cereal rusts, it is believed, cost the world £100,000,000 a year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21910, 20 September 1934, Page 11
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