Open AccessMANUKA BLIGHT IN NORTHERN HAWKES BAY
Author(s) -
E.C. Ayson
Publication year - 1955
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1955.17.1046
Subject(s) - battle , bay , bankruptcy , abandonment (legal) , geography , genus , archaeology , history , business , law , political science , finance , biology , ecology
But for the fortuitous appearance of a hitherto unknown scale insect of the Eriococcus genus on manuka, in the Geraldine District of Canterbury in the mid 1930's, this paper may well have been titled "Manuka- the problem weed of the Hawkes Bay hill. country." We might have been telling of a losing battle fought on farms and stations against a persistent and relentless foe; of properties verging on bankruptcy and abandonment, because of the difficulty of securing. labour and finance for cutting and control.