Cockroaches
Dear Aunt Daisy, Tell the woman with cockroaches to see if she has a damp placé anywhere, because that is where they breed. Many years ago we shifted into a two-storied house, the bottom part of the house being built against a clay bank; and we were simply over-run with the pests. I used everything on the market to try and‘get rid of them, and although it controlled them in the house, we would go outside with a torch at night and kill them in hundreds on the wall. One day there was a storm and the wind blew a board out of place and made a wind-tunnel along beside the clay bank. As we were busy it wasn’t replaced right away. Imagine our surprise to find the pests disappear! So now we have just? left it open and there is never a sign of a cockroach.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 23
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152Cockroaches New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 23
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