PRICKLY PEAR SCOURGE
CONQUERED BY INSECTS BRISBANE, May 6. Amazement at the manner iii which eactoblastus insects had cleared prickly pear was expressed by the Premier, Mr. Moore, to-day as lie journeyed from Goombungeo to Maelngklan by car. Mr. Moore, who knows the country well, Said it seemed to him that people of Peranga should erect a memorial tablet to eactoblastus in view of the tremendous improvement it had made iii the district. Two or three years ago it, was difficult to keep open a narrow lane through the pear, and hundreds of pounds had been spent by one shire in trying to keep the tracks clear. Farmers, too, had spent a. great portion of their time in keeping the pear back. The insects had done what Governments had failed to do, and had made the district one of the most favored areas in Darling Downs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17781, 17 May 1932, Page 9
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