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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 4

Recently a Lyttelton resident picked up an insect on a hose which was supplying the motor-ship Pakura with water. He sent it to Mr. J. Drummond, who identified it as a tortoise ibeetle. It is an Australian species that has come into New Zealand. The eggs, Mr. -Drummond stated, probably came with Australian timber. The insect lives mainly on eucalyptus trees, eating the leaves and doing a great deal of damage. In Australia it is called the eucalyptus beetle. Apparently it is not uncommon in Lyttelton, for another resident killed a similar insect some days later. A service which was remarkable even in the annals of St. Martin-in-the-Fields was held in that church in connection with the World’s Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. week of prayer and world fellowship. It was attended by young men and women of many nationalities, and the hymns were sung simultaneously in English, French, German, Swedish. Finnish, Danish, and Greek. The clergy in the sanctuary included M. Constantinides, Great Archimandrite of the Greek Church; Pastor Wehran, of the German Lutheran Church; Pastor Lelievre, of the French Huguenot Church. Pastor Erkki Airas, of the Finnish Church; Pastor Hoffman de Vlsme, of the Swiss Church ; the Rev. IT. de S-oyzu. of Ceylon, and the Rev. 11. Dolphin, of St. Martin’s.