Woolly aphis is especially prevalent in Waipukurau, and has attacked trees of all varieties (states the Napier Telegraph). Ifc has been noted that chaffinches have done excellent work in combating the pest, and many trees have been saved the ravages of tho aphis through the activity of the chaffinches. Norman Blakiston, a young Dannevirke lawyer, to prove to some doubting friends that he could do so, walked from Dannevirke to Pipibank station at the const, a distance of 47 miles, during the week-end. The condition of the challenge was that the distance of 47 miles had to he covered between sunrise nnd sunset. Blakiston did the journey .in lli hours, his walking time averaging 4J miles an hour, finishing in good form.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3743, 8 December 1925, Page 8
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