THE WOOD-BORER.
The wood-borer has been much in evidence in Auckland of late. , The Star states that the worm has been playing havoc with New Zealandmade furniture. An Auckland resident, seeing some.sawdust at the back *'.<Jf ; :..a^. substantialljfcbuiJt chest of drawers, looked for the cause. He fotind no traces of decay in the kauri front and sides, neither was there any sign of wormhole in the drawers. A few holes in the kahikatea back—a heavy piece of timber—drew attention, and in a few seconds there was not a more astonished man in Auckland, for the- householder sharply tapping the back of this substantial chest of drawers, sent his fist through it! His astonishment deepened into real alarm when he found that all the kahikatea furniture in the house had been attacked. Wickerwork had also received unwelcome attention from the borer. The only re-assur-ing feature of the revelations was that kauri had not been affected, even though kahikatea in the same piece of furniture had been eaten through and through.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8386, 22 March 1907, Page 3
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169THE WOOD-BORER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8386, 22 March 1907, Page 3
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