MENACE OF FIREBLIGHT.
CONCERN AT TE KAUWHATA. TE KAUWHATA, Dec. 23. The menace -of fireblight has caused much concern among fruit growers at Te Kauwhata this season. It is considered that the attack is the most severe the district has experienced since the disease w r as first discovered about 12 years ago. When the position was generally realised about three weeks ago immediate steps were taken to cheek the disease and it is now under control. Te Kauwhata is one of the districts which was declared a fruit-growing area, in the Act passed in 1922 for the imposition of regulations for tho compulsory eradication of fireblight and about, three weeks ago a committee of representative apple and pear growers was set up to take immediate action. Since fireblight was first discovered at Te Kauwhata there has been a slight recurrence of it each season. It is generally considered by orchardists that the increase this year is due in a great part to carelessness. Over the East four years the amount of blight as been very small indeed and it is felt that vigilance may not have been fully maintained. “It will be a lesson for the future,” remarked one prominent orchardist.
Tlie season has been a particularly dry one and there has heen speculation whether this might have been favourable to the blight.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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224MENACE OF FIREBLIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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