COCKROACHES.
1 Many householders suffer from- the incursion of cockroaches iij the hot ; weather'.-:, Seemingly, they may prove a blessing, in-disguise.•■- In -a-paper .. hef ore .the. sanitary,scien.ce: ;: sept-ion "of the Science Congress .in Sydney, Mr Pardy, chief health officer for Tasmania, speaking of certain experiments made in New Zealand, remarked:— "An interesting point which came under our notice was on the successful extermination of cockroaches '%■ a certain preparation on some old ships, bugs came more into evidence. As a matter of fact, Inspector Franklin, of the New Zealand Health Department, after exterminating, cockroaches at: the Tararua Old Men's Home at the Tnames had to re-introduce cockroaches to keep down the bugs. In any effort to exterminate a pest by introducing some other natural enemy of the pest, one must consider not only the immediate effect, but also the remote contingency of the natural enemy also changing its habits as a result of environment."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10146, 24 January 1911, Page 4
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153COCKROACHES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10146, 24 January 1911, Page 4
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