WILLOW DISEASE
AFFECTING CRICKET BATS. (United Preaa Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 10.lt! a.m.) LONDON, April 8. The opening of 1931 season revealed a remarkable position in the cricket hat industry, due to the ravages of watermark disease, which is a bacterial affection causing death to willow trees worth £2OO to £3OO each.
The willow growing country is practically confined to Hertfordshire and (Suffolk. Experiments in growing cricket willows elsewhere- have been without result, the bats having no drive.
Tile demand for bats is as great as ever and unless the blight is stopped, the position promises to be most difficult.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1931, Page 5
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