BUTTERFLY PEST.
Apprehension Felt in South Island. (Special to the “Star.”) WELLINGTON, March 9. The Minister of Agriculture was asked urgently in the House yesterdav 1-.,.- a i.. "" T> tA'
, by Mr R. W. Hawke (Kaiapoi) what steps the Department was taking to prevent the spread of the white butterfly from the North Island, as market gardeners and farI mers in the South Island were apprehensive in case this frightful pest e, should invade their farms. He under-
stood that the butterfly had destroyed two-thirds of a rape crop of eighty-five acres near Hastings in two days.
The Hon C. E. Macmillan (Ministerl of Agriculture) said that a large consignment of the natural enemy of the cabbage butterfly had been secured {rum Europe, and arrangements had been made {or further shipments. This; insect. which attacked only the cal)bagc moth, would. if successfully established in New Zealand, prove very effective in controlling the pest‘ This had been Ihc case in America. Market, gardeners and others had been officially advised regarding a. method of control by spraying with lead arsenate.‘ -
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 368, 9 March 1932, Page 5
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