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Bunchy top of bananas in Australia Bunchy top disease threatened the banana industry in Australia in the l92Os. The virus that causes bunchy top is thought to have been introduced from Fiji in infected suckers in 1913. In Lg22 banana production in New South Wales was 433,OOO cases from about 2,226 hectares. In 1925 production had fallen to 60,000 cases and the area planted to bananas had fallen to 607 hectares due to the effects of bunchy top. It was not until the means of spread of the virus was established that the banana industry recovered. The virus was shown to be transmitted in infected planting material and by the banana aphid. In 1927, government legislation was passed that quarantined certain areas where the disease occurred and restricted movement of banana plants from these areas. This prevented the spread of the disease to new areas. This, combined with the destruction of diseased plants, enabled the banana industry to recover from the effects of the bunchy top epidemic. Source: PLANT PATHOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW John Brown www.appsnet.org/Publications/Brown_Ogle/01%20Plant%20Path...(JFB).pdf

The upside-down car is, I think, a VW Type 4 - see the air vents on the 'boot' lid and the horizontal light cluster. The car nearest the image is almost certainly a Ford, probably an Escort or Cortina. The hubcaps and round air-vent point towards one of these, I think. The tiny portion of car in the background looks like an early Audi.

Also the damage on the VW with the light cluster on the side nearest the footpath turned by 90 degrees might indicate the area of impact. The scrape marks and dent on the wing of the Ford could also be significant.

www.google.ie/maps/@53.2960965,-6.3092196,3a,80.3y,329.34... Going by the flat roof for location.

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

There is another photo - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000307843 17 July 1971 was a Saturday.

Turbina famously crashed the party at the 1897 naval review demonstrating the speed possible with turbine engines. See www.btinternet.com/~philipr/Parsons.htm

Shows what a remarkable vessel she was- not many boats that sustained that much damage at that time in history would have been repaired.

Thank you for sharing this wonderfull old picture TWAM.

That's a lot of repairing to do. Thanks for sharing!

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