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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 8

Hopes for the eradication of the buffalo fly have risen an consequence of the receipt of a report from Dr. J. G. Myers, of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, who inveetigatcd the problem in Haiti and the Greater Antilles last year. In these areas he found parasites which exercised some control over the buffalo fly, and his report feuggested their antroduction to Australia. The Council for Scientifie and Industrial Besearch, will take immediate steps to investigato tho possibilities. The Ministor of Devclopinent (Senator McLaehlau) said recently that the division of economie entomology had communicated with tlie Director of the Imperial Collego of Tropical Agriculture at " Trinidad (Hir Geoffrey Evaus), and hoped to obtain some of the parasites for further study in Australia. Previous experiments had not beenu suecessful. After tho study of the fly in tho Netherlands East Indics by Professor Handschin ot tho Univeisity of Basle, Switzerland. the Conimonwealth introduced a parasitic wasp several years ago, but a recent survey in Northern Territory, Western Australia, and north-western Queensland proved that it was not a suecessful predator. 0 ,