BOLL WORM IN FIJI.
COTTON CROP. DRASTIC METHODS ADOPTED. SUVA; October 3.—Thef Government of Fiji :isi greatly exercised as to how it should deal with the dreaded cotton boll worm,.'which is mow proved is quite generally spread:-throughout Fiji. Sir. H. W. Simmonds,, tW. Government entomologist, has just returned ’ from a long tour .through the northern coastal district of- Vamia liem.'-g He .gays that tlio boll worm" exists "all ovor the territory that he covered. worm, he said, was pot known to have existed outside of' India before* 190EL',’.iJhe presence- of the worm, however, need notprevent the. growing ‘in Fiji, but it will materially increase, the coat, to (lie planter, as .a,fterl..every" crop has been harvested every plant-wjll *have to be burned. Thus new" plants will have to be planted each year. .The Government has gazetted a proclamation that all cotton plants in the colony after flowering must be dug and : burned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15955, 17 October 1922, Page 3
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