AUSTRALIAN BORING BEETLES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16266, 17 July 1918, Page 9

A USTRALIAN BORING BEETLES.

EI'ITOB OF "THE I'BESb. times hn ' )l '|' ! t i iat I expected, a a"3 kno "i n „tlV Tile lijrut Jinil any wa> ing beetf nia tter as importing insoct so scrloUS tlp . i r( i |,v the paragraph in P CStS inv'l 'Tie^'' has not Saturdaj s Shrimpton take;. B t.n tho beetles in-'}' >* ri'«wnab > ' • • ntpd in be IcCfPHi" out an f 1 hvb icl with" the New Zeajn fact> IVV tlio uin try snap, tiHv "c'ton'i"" to**** ffer r/pruxl and por-oiis cannot o\eji arf proteci. , ;i ilppartmg solpttach <I v.ouM bo hard labour Seesaws* SfcSkS. i.o««>»•«« livm ?/ *"t later the enquiries by your ' c ' ) '' ~ Jv»lfuseiim savs tiie beetles (Austin • b n k ncl) (io not attach to the. living ■Si luit conline their attention to jfri rotten wood. Surely this is not . _ l-inrl r\f ivooil which the Govern-

the kind oi wnoii ivm™ y- ~ Lent oav ii high I>'' 1( ' 0 for P er . f " ot , electric lino poles. If Sl >>it might riv*L a clue wliv so inuoli tologvaph lino £ been B P «ndea S l«l by . a » - ftorm I " nt nsscrfc IS , v f„ S?oloßicai fact that in the 'seventies im Australian boring beetle s Ss in the Christ-hnreh Museum. That coes really ti* show that it was put there as a warning that its species should not bo propoptcd. True, >ew Zealand has many beetles, and many noxious weeds, unci C'odlin moths, for whicli people are harried by inspectors, and although tho private citizen eanpob pall the inspector of Australian boring beetles so lone as they are securo in. Government telegraph poles to account, it is our privilege to hare a means through tho Press to denounce as »n----fair that pests should bo introduced under tha protection under comment. -Yours, etc., ttmBER grOWER .