Spraying Crops From Planes Has Its Dangers
. ♦ WELLINGTON, Nov. 18. In view of the large increase in the scale and variety of aerial farm and horticultural work being undertaken and prepared throughout New Zealand, the Director of Civil Aviation, Wing Commander H. E. Gibson, has issued a warning "that the indiscriminate dropping - of agricultural chemicals from aircraft can cause trouble, as has happened overseas. Most of light aircraft activity at ohe present is in aerial top-dressing and if "super" does not fall where , intended no great harm is done, and Wing Commander Gibson's warning rather looks ahead to the extension of the work to crop dusting and so forth. Livestock, bees and crops had been damaged overseas through the incorrect vse of airborne chemicals said Wing Coipmander Gibson. There was no desire to introduce restrictions and' the' necessity would not arise provided the operators f observed reasonable caution, he stated. However, those intending to spread agricultural chemicals other than " manures, should obtain prior approval, This particularly applied, he said, to the use of aircraft to spread poison baits and chemicals of a toxic nature.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 November 1949, Page 4
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184Spraying Crops From Planes Has Its Dangers Chronicle (Levin), 18 November 1949, Page 4
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