A MODERN HOUSE
WITH BEETLES AS TENANTS A little house is shortly to be built, “somewhere in Buckinghamshire,” which from the outside will seem to have “all modem conveniences.” Actually, however, the house —which will cost £I,OO0 —will have been plentifully inoculated with dry-rot fungus, and death-watch beetles (whose kin devoured the old oak of Westminster Hall) will hold undisputed revels in the roof. These undesirable “tenants” will be permitted to do their worst, while scientists from the Forest Products Rssearch Institute at Princes Risborough (Buckinghamshire), the Building Research Station at W r atford (Hertfordshire), and other Government centres will look on and increase their knowledge of the pests which cause such damage to Britain’s buildings.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 19
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116A MODERN HOUSE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 19
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