THE MOSQUITO PEST
EFFORT TO COMBAT IT.
AUCKLAND, June 16
Everyone will w.sii good, luck to a tinful of gnmbod, a fish that arrived on the Aoracigi for the Cawthron Institute. 'They are quite small specimens of the fish family, but they have the useful habit of living on the larvae of the mosquito when they can
get it, and have been known to “clean up” pools.
This tinful of fish comes from the Pan-Pacific Research Institute at Honolulu whore so much good work has been done in fighting tropical diseases. It is consigned to Mr W, J. Phillips, of the Dominion Museum, and he came up to Auckland to take charge of it, The fish will be bred at tne Cawthron. Institute, and experiments made-in mosquito-infested pools. Although the habits of the fish have been closely studied at Honolulu and elsewhere in the tropics, it has yet to be- seen whether it will follow the same habits in New Zealand.
The fish are quite small, not bigger than a gudgeon,' oi: about the size of an extra big whitebait. They travelled “do luxe”, in the doctor’s cabin, and were so well looked after that only about half a dozep of them died.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1930, Page 2
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