POTATO DISEASE IN AUCKLAND
(Pee 'PN(TEp Pw.ss Assooution.) V" AVBLLtNGTON, November 19. .With reference 4 to the potato disease . ;.r> causing araeh anxiety in tho Auf.-klatid; di - Ific't, Mr Kirk, Gorcrnmcnt biologist, states that none of the specimens received >' by the department from.Auekland show any • tfaccs of "potato rot,' 1 but they showed traces of anbther disease known as "early blight," which is prevalent in America and Australia. The disease is not so ■ dangerous to the crops as the " rot," though it is terlous. Professor Kitlt is «n- •' able' to say whether the "rot" may not v ; be prevalent in; Auckland, but he leaves for that district oii Monday to investigate ? the outbreak. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13136, 21 November 1904, Page 5
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