Where Singing and Stinging Hold Sway
rHRISTCHURCH no longer talks of how English it is. There is another topic of conversation, m the city. Stern men on their way to business clutch at something m the air and, with the light of battle m their eyes, murmur, ' ' Got you, you brute ! " The little mosquito has arrived m Christchurch. With a little commonsense and a few pounds' worth of kerosene every pool and stagnant ditch Wound Christchurch— excluding the Avon there are some hundreds of these— -could have been rendered untenable by the subtle "skeeter," but the authorities heeded not the warning of a local paper.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1209, 31 January 1929, Page 5
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105Where Singing and Stinging Hold Sway NZ Truth, Issue 1209, 31 January 1929, Page 5
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