A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1926, Page 4

A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

DESTRUCTION OF BORER. ' WELLINGTON, April 16. The terrible ravages of the borer and the startling information that another and unknown specie had been found in u rinm door panel in Masterton were referred to by Air F. W. Temple- at a meeting of tiie Masterton Chamlier ot . Commerce this afternoon. Mr Temple stated that the ravages of the borer were providing a stag--1 goring problem which merited the Gov- ■ eminent taking up the matter thoroughly in the interests of all concerned. - Tu 75 per cent, of wooden houses the . borer had made its appearance, and , the time had come when thinking people believed that something should bo done to obliterate it. For many years ’ the borer had made headway in the ‘ Dominion, and it would continue to make progress until the authorities . tackled the problem properly. The only way lie could see of suc--1 cessfully dealing with the problem was to destroy the source from whence the •v borer came—its birthplace in the tim- ' her yards. Ninety per cent of-the timber yards were nurseries for the lxirer. and the Government should have in--1 feetod timber burned. Air Temple produced tor the inspection of the meeting a live borer in a I glass jar. lie did not know the name ’ of the borer, it was_ something new to him. but there had been three of these !1 and they had eaten away a. rinm panel leaving only a. skin of the panel, which e was three-eighths of an inch thick, anil two or three feet long. He suggested that the borer ho forwarded to the Cawthron Institute for its opinion as to what its name was. , He moved: “That the Chamber oi ’• Commerce request the Government to take in hand the question of dealing with the borer, and that the matter be ~ also brought under the notice ol the il Cawthron Institute.” f M,- C. C*. Jackson was of the opinion ’ o that the barer originated in the sap of the wood. The motion was carried.