THE PRICKLY PEAR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 10

THE PRICKLY PEAR

BECOMING A MENACE TO AUSTRALIA. In Queensland the prickly pear pest lias overrun a great area of country m -.pile of lavish expenditure on efforts to restrain it, During the discussion on the Estimates in the l'oileral House of liepresentatives Mr. Wrinholt, one of the representatives of Queensland, asserted hatX pest Wa. fast becoming a naional danger. Kefcrnng socially to an item of .£IOOO for the clearing of a rillo ran"e at Warwick from prickly pear, lie aW ho thought this range was probably area of 300 br 500 acres that h» had seen. If it was so, and if it would cost .£IOOO to clear it, it was qnito e\iilent that the cost of deaiipg. with the |K .st would be onormous. It was no ex nEKoration to state, that one ; tluid of tlio vast area of Queensland might bo said o bo now directly threatened 'by the °esi °»n n d the *£™ThS menace to more than one ine Stato Governments had been unable to stare w ~ o{ co mplete fLthat the pest might be preventId'from spreading further.. The prickly near Tas gradually tacniing a menace [o Austmlia. and sooner or later. a practicable a national The question of its eradication vvniild then become a national one, and ft hhve to;.bc faced in a national