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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1393, 20 March 1912, Page 4

Tho cost of carriage by road from the Main Trunk lino to some of tho townships ill tha Ohura district has been raised, owing to the bad state of the roads, from £Z 10s. per ton to .€5 per ton, and it is anticipated that the rate will be lifted to <£15 per ton during the winter. This is urged as a strong argument for the rapid completion of tho OngarucStrat ford line, and also for tho metalling of (ho main King Country roads.

A ninnlxT of people in tho Hobson C'onntv and the Upper Northern Wairoa districts lmvo lately been raising something of nn outcry against all invasion ol wasps, which has been sletidily making its way southward. Air. Oheesemnn, curator of 'the Auckland Museum, interviewed on tho subject, said that he had heard of wasps in llokianga about twenty years ago. Five years ago they first appeared ill the Northern Wairoa district, and .are now gradually approaching Whnngarai. They aro a species coming originally from South America to Polynesia, and so to Xew Zealand, probably in ca-es of fruit. Mr. Cher-seinfm further stated that like nil wa-ps tliey are bound to lie in pome measure de-tinetivo lo soft fruit--, such peaches pining mid grapes, Init it'will IH' many year- yet l..el'ore thev n\uh ill ti-icls where mchui'its abiitiml. 11' they lieromn leu 1 rouble-lime, tin- nwen- <■)' p-tliiiß rid of tin-ill wliieli i- ino-t likely l» meet villi -mee-.- i- to iin port a — !>:■< ii'ei e:irnivol ou~: i'liiicminiii Hy. wliieli devtrnys we.sp- l>y lieriug iutu the hirviio of the'wasp while --'ill in the popery inr-i-. and toying its own eggs inside (he body of tho IIU'VMV