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carried on reflects great credit on the Phylloxera Commission, and 
especially on M. Peringuey, to whom has been allotted the duty of 
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applying to an extent hitherto unknown in any country, regardless of 
the risk of personal unpopularity. 
* Considering that the vineyards of the Colony are sufficiently 
isolated from each other, there was all the more reason to follow this 
line of procedure, particularly as there exists no neighbouring nations 
by w instrumentality the pest mig ereafter be re-introduced. 
The expenditure incurred in this contest has necessarily n con- 
siderable, but, when the results achieved are compared with the cost, it 
will be easy to show that the measures taken have been consistent wit 
the best interests of the wine-farming proprietary and of the colony 
generally, while the Parliament and = Government cannot be too 
highly congratulated upon what has been effected. 
“ In point of fact, the area of this phylloxeric i — either actually 
extends over, or threatens, AE ,000, vinestocks, the extent of 
10,000 hectares s (12,500 morgen) of land. once to the last 
official statistics, these codeso on an average 5,119,608 gallons 
and 10,945 leaguers of brandy, worth 164,175/.; besides about 200,000 
lbs. of raisins, valued at 2,5002., giving altogether a total of 298,6272. 
Including sundry accessory products, the output may be stated as not 
less than 300,0007. sterling per a 
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wine farmer, if left to his own resources, would make no effort to save 
his property from destruction? And if this — result should 
ow, as one may well ieve it would, reat disaster would 
assuredly befall the Colony, seeing that the Wem of the whole 
community is indissolubly bound up in that of the individual. 
* It is on these ma that I have no hesitation in declaring that it 
es De to the interest of the entire Colony that the Government should 
ere in maintaining the hand-to-hand contest with the enemy 
Which it has hitherto done with so much success. By pursuing this 
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