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Otago Witness, Issue 3614, 19 June 1923, Page 26

A disease of plant life known as fascination, tho origin of which is at pro-wit unknown, and which mainly affects coniferous frees, causing a flattening of the branchlets, has been found to exist, to a minor degree in a. plantation of trees near Invercargill. Tho disease however, is not very serious in its effects on I roes which have a commercial value, as it only affects trees which have a weak growth. At a meeting of creditors in Wellington bust week it was proposed that the bankrupt should he paid £5 a week from the estate while he was carrying on the business. One of tho creditors expressed the opinion that no man could live on £5 a week, and moved that the amount should bo £7. With this the ether creditors agreed, and the motion was carried.