Miracle Insecticide

HHHE insecticide D.D.T. is one of the A greatest scientific achievements of the last decade. It threatens the existence of the malaria-carrying mos quito, and is a protection against dysentery. It was used to combat the typhus outbreak in Naples, and the outbreak was under control in three weeks. No previous outbreak has ever been arrested before mid-winter.

Shirts impregnated with D.D.T. pro tect servicemen against lice for two months, even after regular washing.

The post-war possibilities of D.D.T. are enormous.

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smith, of Sydney, have advised their friends of the recent arrival of their second child. Mrs. Smith was Miss Anna Laurenson, of Apia. West ern Samoa; and they were married in Sydney in 1941.