WHITE BUTTERFLIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20928, 6 January 1938, Page 3

WHITE BUTTERFLIES

RAPID SPREAD Supplies of the white butterfly parasite ordered some months ago from the Government Plant Research Bureau, Palmerston North, by the TeMuka and Geraldine A. and P. Association have not yet come to hand. The butterfly has spread so rapidly that in the Orari and Winchester districts alarm has been expressed for the future of farm crops, such as turnips, swedes and rape. In and around Temuka the pest seems to have abated somewhat by comparison with previous years, but that has not been the experience at Milford. Last year liberations of parasites were made in that district, but the butterflies are reported to be more numerous than ever. Where the butterflies are most numerous the farmers seem confident of the ability of the parasite to counteract the spread of the pest, as has been accomplished in par f s of the North Island where rape could not be grown for some years until this season.

PERSONAL Mr Devane. King Street, is visiting Christchurch. Mr L. H. Wightman, who spent Christmas and New Year with his parents, Mr and Mrs S. B. Wightman, left yesterday for Wellington. Miss Mary Smith, Christchurch, is spending a holiday in Temuka. The Temuka branch of the New Zealand Labour Party will hold a euchre party and dance in the Labour Hall to-night at 8.15 p.m Procter’s, the Opticians, Christchurch, will be making their next professional visit to Temuka on Tuesday, January 18, when they may be consulted on all defects of eyesight at the Temuka Hotel. Appointments can now be made by ringing the U.F.S. Dispensary, ’phone 240 M