FRUITGROWERS’ INTERESTS
CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY. SERIOUS PROBLEM OF THE FLT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received June 1, 7.85 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 1. The Fruitgrowers’ Conference resolved to ask the Government) to make an effort to get the New Zealand Gave!mmen(b (tool swcerot certificates from packers’ sheds which guaranteed to pack the fruit from orchards with clean certificates. The speakers etrongty urged . the need for stringently enforcing the destruction of fallen fruit. One delegate stated: that owing to the enormous amount of fallen fruit allowed to rot last year the fruit fly -was now worse than.- ever. Another said that unless growers were compelled to comply with the regulations they would soon have no soft fruit to send to the market. Others stated that fly traps and arsenic had not proved effective, and no really effective remedy had yet been discovered. It was decided to ask the Agricultural Department to continue experimnts in the direction of discovering an effective remedy for the fly.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11225, 2 June 1922, Page 5
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