DOMINION NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14009, 13 March 1920, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 13. Dr. Tilyard, recently appointed biolo-gi-l lo llie Cawthron Institute, is pro-T-.'i'diiig to i'Jngland to represent the Dominioii at the Entomological Conii.inie in London. He will also procure l-.ooks imd apparatus for the ln-.-titiite and will then attend the Scientific Congress at Honolulu on the way, iciiirninji about October. Dr. Tilyard i.- much impressed with the serious 10-se- suffered by the apple industry by aphis, and fears that the increasing once of chemicals will soon make spraying prohibitive. He deems it abso- j iutely necessary to discover and culti- j vale natural enemies of the pest, and he points out that this is done in California, and, though costly, is well worth the money. NAPIER. March 13. , Messrs Withers and Hills' tyre re- ! treating works were destroyed by (ire this morning. The plant, one of the best in the Dominion, was recently imported from America, and was not insured. A large stock of raw rubber was destroyed.