An announcement that an eminent entomologist recommended that the Government send a scientific expedition to South America to find, specimens of a parasite, native to Chile and Peru, to combat the grass grub and porina moth in pastures in New Zealand, was made by Mr W. W. Mulholland (Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union) at the annual conference of the Mid-Canter-bury provincial executive at Ashburton. “It would be a drop in a bucket,” said Mr Midland when referring to the expense of such an expedition compared with the saving to farmers the eradication of pests would bring.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1939, Page 3
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