Attack On Coconut
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Pest
Entomological Enterprise in T.N.G.
AFTER overcoming many difficulties, ranging from official inertia to transport obstacles, the New Guinea Department of Agriculture finally suc ceeded, in October, in introducing a “wog” to attack the “Promecotheca” scourge, which was destroying coconut groves, near Rabaul.
The “Rabaul Times” of January 6, re ports: The anti-pest colonies, consisting of two hundred living parasites, were received by airmail in Rabaul on Octo ber 6, 1938. Colonies, which have now been bred to the second generation, have been released to plantations and native groves on the North Coast of New Britain, to Ralumbang and district, and throughout the Gazelle Peninsular, as well as to Manus and on the mainland.
Colonies have not been released at Lin denhaven. but in native groves at Ring Ring (Gasmata) district.
Mrs. F. P. Foley, of Salamaua, New Guinea, is at present spending three months’ holiday at Bondi, Sydney.