FRUIT PESTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 31 March 1908, Page 2

FRUIT PESTS.

f ' NAPIER, March 30. A largely - attended ' meeting of the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association was held -at 'Hastings ' on Saturday. A resolution wa« passed strongly condemning oettnin statements' made in a Southern paper that the codlin moth could not be controlled and that the Orchard and: Garden Pest Act- was worse than useless. - Another resolution asserted positively that ft'om-'thej experience pi members of the Association, if the instructions given ■ by ' the Government officials as- to systematic^ spraying wfer© followed, the crop as a rule was practically saved. Th» Government waa >urged to strictly enforce tb.c*' regulations _ in force with regard to' these pests, and also the fruit fly, which. was Regarded as very ! muclr worse^ban the' codlin moth. An . instance wap quoted •of an oreharclist \yrho three years ago could only get '70 cases of plea? apples*, this yoar, by Systematic spraying, he had got cter fan tons of, 1 apples from ithe same cr<shard. , . •' •