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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1930, Page 5

LIZARDS AS WALL-PAPER., In Ceylon, when night falls and the rooms are lit up, the /walls of the houses are simply swarming with lizards, but the people do not mind at all. So said Professor Wall in the course of a lecture on that island in the W.E.A. rooms on Saturday evening at Christchurch. Another unconventional feature of houses in Ceylon was the presence of tame frogs, about ten times as large as New Zealand frogs, which wandered over the floors, and in and out among the feet of the residents, searching for white ants on which they forged almost to bursting point. A daily scene in Colombo that never failed to amuse tourists, said Professor Wall, was the bathing of elephants in large pools. They sit in the water while men work on them with scrubbing brushes, and then suck up the water in their trunks and delight in squirting it over themselves".

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