APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT.
NAPIER, Oct. 14. Regardod as a serious tlireat to the farming and market gardening industries in New Zealaud, the red legged earth mite now iirmly cstablished in the Napier district, is to be thc subject of urgent representations to the Minister of Agriculture. Telograms were sent to tlie Minister today by the Mayor of Napier, Mr. T. W. Hercock, and th6 Hawke's Bay Counly Oouneil urging immediate eontrol measures. "This is the most serious tlireat we have ever had to i'aee," said the ehairmau of tlie council, Mr. R. Harding, at today 'a meeting. Members expressed the view that the mile was a greater menace than rabbits or variegated thistle. A councillor reported cases of entire vegetable crops being wiped out by the pest in thc matter of days. It was aftaclcing subterranean clover. "The pest will soon be all over the country," said Mr. Harding. "If we don't taekle it now it will be a national disaster.'* _ (
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 October 1946, Page 3
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161APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT. Chronicle (Levin), 15 October 1946, Page 3
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