A warning against allowing foreign pests to enter Australia was uttered by Sir Joseph Carruthers at the annual reunion of the New South Wales Chassber of Agriculture, of whieh he is president. Imported pests, he said, took \ toll of over £100,000,000 a year from Australia. The questions of prickly pear, rabbits, tielts, and buffalo fly had been taken up by the Chamber "tof Agriculture, and the Chamber was asking the Federal Government to institute a more rigid quarantine system in order to minimise the danger of importing further pesta. The Australian quarantine system was—' totally, ineffective, and nothing like the rigid system he had seen in American territory. There were more dyemrt dangerous to Australian vegetation in New Guinea than in any other part of tho world, and if these entered Australia Bullions of pounds would be loot.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18362, 21 April 1925, Page 13
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138Untitled Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18362, 21 April 1925, Page 13
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