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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18875, 30 May 1923, Page 11

The walnut crop this year, though far short of the average annual yield of times gone by, is a decided improvement on last season’s (writes the Akaroa correspondent of the Christchurch Press). The blight, that has played such havoc with the nuts during the past 10 years, is still largely in evidence, though there are signs that make one hopeful it is slowly on the wane. One hears of many trees that were barely touched with it, and that yielded fine crops of sound nuts, while there were others that were scarcely worth “thrashing.” The blight appears to attack the stalk of the nut in its early stages of growth. The nut either falls before long, or, if it reaches maturity on the tree, shows, on being opened, a partially blackened and shrivelled up kernel. So far, a reliable specific has not been heard of. PROMINENT BANDSMEN. The recent band contests have once again proved that there is nothing to equal Fluenzol for keeping the mouth moist and cool, and Q-tol for cracked lips.—Advt.