SPREAD OF FIRE BLIGHT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2126, 7 December 1920, Page 7

SPREAD OF FIRE BLIGHT.

INDISCREET FRUITGROWER. Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 7. Officers of the Agricultural Department are concerned about the action of a fruitgrower in the Nelson district who asked someone in the North Island to send him a specimen of wood affected with fire blight, in order to see what it was like, and to guard against its introduction. The wood was sent, unprotected by chemicals. The Agricultural Department considers that this is a good way to spread tho disease. Application should have been made through the proper channels. Tho department desires it to be known that prosecutions will follow if persons ignore the regulations as to the spread of this disease.