MOSQUITO HORDES
“ALMOST DEAFENING BUZZING”
GUARDIANS OF THE UREWERA If the manufacturers of a certain brand of insect spray communicate with Mr. F. tie Guerrier, chief engineer for the Auckland City Tramways, they may (a la “Missing Persons’’ advertisements) hear something to their advantage. A bottle of the product in questiou, carried by him. saved his party from untold miseries while camped under Mount Edgecumbe in the Urewera Country. ‘The Urewera mosquitoes are extremely large and particularly vicious,’’ he told a Sun man this morning. “As soon as we camped they came in hordes. “Inside the tent the air was black with these insects and the buzzing was almost deafening. "Then out came the spray and thej tent was treated thoroughly. The! silence after the overpowering noise of the invaders was uncanny. Thanks to the spray we were immune from attacks for the rest of the night.” j
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 16
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