Bug Quarantine
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What Are South British Nations Doing?
From Our Own Correspondent
W Honolulu, Dec 2.
HAT are Australia and New Zealand going to do about par ticipating in a similar idea?
American interests have established an insect quarantine station on Can ton Island, one of the stops on the proposed Pan American Airways route from Hawaii to Auckland, New Zealand.
An experienced entomologist will watch over arriving planes from the south and thoroughly spray them before they take off, northbound. The idea is to keep out destructive in sects from the Hawaii and California agricultural industries.
There is a similar station on Mid way Island, where clippers from the Orient are examined. During the last 10 months, at Midway, more than 1,000 live insects and more than 1,000 dead have been removed from the clippers at Midway.
Many of them were serious pests, the report added.