RAGWORT PEST
RELEASE OF PARASITIC FLIES SELECTED AREAS IN WAIKATO (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 18. Parasitic flies which devour the ragwort seed are to be liberated soon in the Waikato district. It was mentioned by the Minister of Agriculture (Mr W. Lee Martin) to-day that arrangements were being made by Dr D. Miller, entomologist at the Cawthron Institute, to liberate the ragwort need fly in a Waikato locality to be chosen in co-operation with the Department of Agriculture. The Minister made it clear that the whole of the very limited supply of the insects would be released in the areas so selected, and that no other supplies would be available for other districts at present.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22809, 19 February 1936, Page 6
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