TIMBER PESTS.

Shannon News, 10 April 1923, Page 4

TIMBER PESTS.

Vi i iiprarA ,<-t :it-vr r , ? TROUBLE IN AUSTRALIAN WOODS (Received Monday, 8 p.m.) , -;v: Sydney, April 9/' A statement has been published inthe Sydney papers that , the New Zealand' Fore'stry Departmerit’has discovered a large grub pest in a shipirieiit. ,of hardwood., The pebt f '‘Wnich,” however; “is moist' " ; feared ' amongst - bufiders f 'ah'd '‘'householders •’hdre;iriiid-.undoubtedly: caused and is , ; serious dqmage, is the'small dust‘and Allied borers, the pfesence bf ‘TvMdtt" ea’sily M discovered ? by' I 'nonexperts Than the larger" ?and' known grub, and whose ravages /and, spreading propensities are 1 far " /nibr'e tb'be !l; 'guhrded 1 against“ The' •Forestry 'Department : ’ and building: trades '.have - been conducting exhaub.tive investigations with a ! view to ••Checking the pest, to have ‘ discoveted 'various remedies 1 for' pre- ■ serving woods from attack or ridding' thein after they are infested. The matter is Regarded as' one *of serious importance to the timber trade gen--eralljf/H • ‘