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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 2

The Mission of the Ladybird.—An Inj cldent of his boyhood days was re- | called by Mr G. 11. Williams, presiI dent, of the Poverty Ray Sheepowners’ Union, •♦luring his introduction of Dr. David 'Miller to a large audience of ! farmers at Gisborne. Mr Williams rej ferred to the science of entomology, ’ of which Dr. Miller is a distinguished i exponent, and stated that, at. the age •of about 10 years h* was on holiday in Hawke’s Ray, and there encountered Professor Koehle, a German • scientist, who, with two colleagues, i had been sent to Australia and New ! Zealand to find an insect capable of controlling the San .lose scale, which was ruining the citrus industry in California. It. was in Hawke’s Ray that Professor Koehle found the ladybird, which eventually proved the saving of California’s great groves, and enabled the State to develop an industry which to-day is valued as one ( of its greatest assets. Mining Returns. - The Maori Gullv return was 24 ounces lOdwts. for iOO hours and the Argo return. 51 ounces of 134 hours and 13,300 yards, states a Greymouth message, i