THE DEADLY KATIPO.
, SWAJJMS FQUND AT MURITAI.
Judging,by the somewhat startling discovery made yesterday by Messrs. ,W.' Wills' and ; H,'. C. Wilson,. of '.this - city, parents. of 'children' visiting ' our holiday, I'csoi'ts would be well advised ,to cs«rqisa -.some surveillance 'over : their. littlo ones'when, the latter, may bo taken with, tho potion of'handling tins left about by picnic parties.Yesterday Messrs. Wills' and .Wilson, aicomiMiied. by Mr; J. Em-.'; bury.. J.P., 0,1 turning over -.some' tins in a field at "Miiritai noticed that caoh'ivas a. colony of small dark and . these were readily identified by . Mr. Embury, who knows them well, 1 -as the- katipo. Further -investigation .showed' that many other tins, besides those first turned over, were similarly tenanted, so-that the numbers- of the formidable little. creature in' that locality are - evidently; considerable just' now. . They 'were not. discoverable anywhere except in: itns, however. '• As an earnest -' of: their discovery the .'two gentlemen .named, brought - back ! to ■' town with them a bottle .containing- six- of the creatures, and these -they handed in at The-Dominion'.office for-inspection. They aro evidently, katipos..- ;■■■ '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 723, 24 January 1910, Page 7
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179THE DEADLY KATIPO. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 723, 24 January 1910, Page 7
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