NOXIOUS WEEDS
BLACKBERRY PROBLEM AN IMAGINARY DANGER. Currency has been given to a report that insect enemies of th© blackberry, including on© that attacks the blossoms are undergoing tests at the Wellington iasectarics. It has been accompanied by a warning that the propagation of such insects might imperil raspberry and loganberry plantations. The matter was referred to Professor T. H. Easterfield, Director of the Cawthron Institute, who stated: —“So far as is known to us no blackberry experiments are being carried out at insectaries in Wellington. No insects are known to the entomologists at the Cawthron Institute which attack the flower clusters of the blackberry, and my officers would be glad to hear ot any insects which have developed this habit. ’ ’
Professor Easterfield emphasised the fact that no insects ar© introduced into the Cawthorn Institute without the consent of the Government, and that an undertaking has been given that no insect will be liberated without the consent of the Minister of Internal Affairs. This consent is only given after consultation with the Department of Agriculture, and with a special committee appointed by th© Board of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 9
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