Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

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."

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19110124.2.9

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10146, 24 January 1911, Page 4

Word count
Tapeke kupu
153

COCKROACHES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10146, 24 January 1911, Page 4

COCKROACHES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10146, 24 January 1911, Page 4

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert