A number of occupiers of house properties in Hastings were oharged last week with neglecting to keep fruit trees clean aa required by the . Orchard and Garden Diseases Act. It was urgpd by some of them that they had sprayed the trees with the proper remedy, but the Inspector of Orchards said it was not so much a question of spraying as of control. None of these was a commercial orchard, but ho had to ask that exemplary fines be imposed if only to protect the commercial men. According to t'ho evidence some of th« trees were very badly affected with codlitf moth and San Joso_ scale. Fines with costal were imposed ranging from £2 to ss.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3335, 13 February 1918, Page 36
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