QUEENSLAND FRUIT FLY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8378, 12 March 1907, Page 3

QUEENSLAND FRUIT FLY.

_ « - -| By Telegraph—Press Association. HASTINGS, March 11. Last week the local Orchard Inspector discovered the presence of Queensland fruit fly in a private orchard on the Napier Hills. The fly had attacked a peach tree, and the fruit was badly infected. The discovery led to a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Fruit-growers' Association, in Hastings, on Saturday morning, and a resolution was carried calling on the Government to destroy all fruit in the Napier Hills, as the only means of exterminating the pest; also to alter the system of inspection of fruit imported into the colony. The meeting expressed the opinion that the only chance of preserving the growing fruit industry was to absolutely prohibit the importation of fruit from fly infested districts in to the colony. | It was stated at the meeting that tnere was very little fear of the fly finding its way into Hastings orchards, as it' was considered that the climate on the Napier Hills is very suitable to encouraging the growth of the fly.