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Show MOVE TO PROTECT HAWAII FROM PESTS WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Consideration Consider-ation of measures to protect Hawaii from certain Insect peats which are da ma Kin a; crops In the United States will be given by the department of agriculture at a hearing: set for April IS In Washington.- The department stated today It had been Informed there was danger of the sugarcane and corn moth borer, the avocado weevil, the papaya fruit fly. the alfalfa weevil and the cotton boll weevil being Introduced into Ha-wail Ha-wail and a quarantine has been pro posed against transportation of such plants as are Jiable to act as insect carriers. |