Termites Making Serious Inroads
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■ • 5 AUCKLAND, Apri-l 30. A reCent inspection of Australiatt hardwood telegraph poles has shown disfurbing evide'nce of'. termites.- A truck baekitig on td the foatputh0 dutside the Poirit Uhevalier Publie Library yesterduy. aftferileoil passed. ovfet the tojl of a valve pit for otie df the maiii pipelines for the' city water supply. The pit, which is eovered With ■AuSttaliart hardwood, collhpsed. The Cit.v Collheii terrtlite iuspefetor (Mr. G. V. Offiitin) i'oitnd that the pit, which had sheltered a nest of termites, was riddled and rotten. ''The spreadiug dangfef to ttfe siurp ping area is enormous," "said Mr.Cronifi. ' ' There is going to be" a big , lieadache ltere fof the next 10 or 12 years. " Reeeutly another nest of termites whs fdhnd in hardwood tramway gleepers opposite Chamberlain! Park.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 May 1948, Page 4
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