SNAKE EPIDEMIC IN NEW SOUTH WALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 44, 16 November 1918, Page 10

SNAKE EPIDEMIC IN NEW SOUTH WALES

The 'femora district (Now Smith Wales) is threatened by an invasion from snakes (state the local correspondent of the Sydney "Sim"). In <mtlvinp districts the reptiles are more plentiful than on any previous occasion In history. It hao been wnOton that before the world comes to any end wo are to have a plague of snakes and a plague of frogs. And there are. quite a number of people hrrnly of the conviction that the first-named disaster, is about to befall ng. Only a week or two bro Mr. W. Koss. who is an octogenarian, killed a brown snake, measuring six feet loi.r, in the BITCPt in front of the church. The old man. 1 armed with a whip, "Rained the day" Two lads, aged respectively 11 and 13. had an encounter with two snakes near the cemetery, and marched home, carrying Hie reptiles in a kerosene tin. ~,-.. i iTofw&ior lloiTissy, the famous snake man was a resident of Tcmora fur a couple of months aliuul; Mi is time Inst vear and a number of youngsters nicked n'n some of the old charmer's "tricks of the trade." Report* trnm T-ako Cowall would appear to ma*-.' Mint place even worse. So bad are the reptiles there that the shearers at. the Lake Cowall station left that shod on account of them. They were found in Mioir beds at night in such largo numbers tlmt tlio men packed up and left.