Beetles For Samoa
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Flown to Sydney From Java
THE K.N.I.L.M. (Royal Netherlands Indies Airways) Lockheed airliner which arrived in Sydney on April 23, brought 10 packages of beetles from Java. They will be transhipped to Samoa to be released to prey on house fly larvae. The insects made their 4,000 miles journey in a cooled compartment of the airliner.
Arrangements have also been made to fly wasps from Africa to Australia for transhipment to the South Seas, where they will be liberated to suppress plagues of rhinoceros beetles, which attack coconut plantations. “S.M.
Herald”.
Mr. Brian Cobcroft, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. R. Cobcroft, of Vaipoto Plantation, Western Samoa, is now serving with the New Zealand Air Force.