FIREBLIGHT.
INSPECTION OF ORCHARDS.
POSITION IN WAIRARAPA. Although he has been in Masterton for several days (says the Wairarapa Age) Mr J. W. Whelan, orchard instructor to the Department of Agriculture, has been able to accomplish comparatively little in the way of inspecting orchards, on account of the prevailing wet weather. Mr Whelan stated that he had made an inspection flf hawthorn hedges in the local district and had found them pretty generally infected with flreblight. He had that day posted fourteen notices, under the Fireblight Act of 1922, requiring owners to cut back their hawthorn hedges well below all visible infection. Between Masterton and Carterton Mr Whelan found the hawthorn "hedges black with fireblight, and he is informed that in Parkvale the hawthorn is very badly contaminated. In Greytown there has been a slight outbreak of fireblight in some orchards, but the disease has not appeared on hawthorn in that part of the district. This is attributed to the fact that Greytown comes under a schedule of the Act requiring'all hawthorn to be cut back to such an extent as to prevent it flowering.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17589, 19 December 1928, Page 13
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185FIREBLIGHT. Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17589, 19 December 1928, Page 13
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