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Shannon News, 18 January 1927, Page 3

"All the damage done by insects in New Zealand, is practically due t<- insects introduced accidentally," reads a statement affixed to a small glc,ss case j amongst the fresh exhibits at the Canterbury Museum. "It is Hot possiYe to estimate the damage, but it must run into a very high figure." The earwig, the cockro'-ich, the hopper, the woolly aphis, the cottony, cupion scale, the bot fly, the grain weevil, the seed.moth, the potato moth, the diamond cabbage moth, and the blue bottle are -Jiuvvn in the case to answer the indictment.