Malaria And Gum Tries
p. 38 · Read in the full issue
Letter to the Editor.
IWAS glad to see Miss Beatrice Phillips’ letter in your far-flung columns and venture to add my hearty endorsement to her capable arguments. When living in the South of Prance as a boy (1878), I saw how much the Blue Cor Flood) gum had been planted in fever-stricken dis tricts; and I later heard that its success was pronounced.
Lately it has been shown that the Euca lyptus is beneficial in several directions besides those commonly recognised—one being that it attracts enemies of the Anopheles, and another that the scent is “foreign” and obnoxious to the fever mosquito.
I am. etc.
Arthur J. Vogan.
“Goldicourt”, Waverton, Sydney. 17/9/’3B.
Application has been made to the New Guinea Administration by Mrs. Kathleen Bignell, proprietress of the Hotel Rabaul, for a publican’s licence for the premises at Warenvula Plantation, Bitapaka, Kokopo District, where she Intends to establish the Warenvula Roadhouse,