MYSTERIOUS INSECTS.
EVEN ROYALTY SUFFERS. A plague of new, tiny, tnd almost invisible insects, known as "harvest bugs." which voraciously burrow under the skin, causing intense irritation when the body becomes heated is now causing havOß among lightlyelad women and holiday-makers i" certain of tin- chalk districts in New Forest (London). Manv have returned from holidays, walking on crutches as the result of having scratched their ankles in an effort to obtain relief. Their faces ami necks, also, wctk disfigured. A practical ioker. immediately before a fashionable hunt ball at. Lyndhurst, took an unsuspecting house party, including a member of the Royal Family on what was ostensibly a' tour of inspection of a badly-infeeted i.hajk quarry. After the third dance the hallroom resembled a monkey house. "1 lie majority of the women were forc-d retire.
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Otaki Mail, 5 October 1923, Page 2
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