Fight In Tonga
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Rhinoceros Beetle
Suva, May 20.
RECENTLY back from Tonga, Mr. Harold Gatty, managing director of Fiji Airways and a Government-nominated member of the Legislative Council, is enthusias tic about the work the Tongan Government and people are doing to
stamp out the rhinoceros beetle in vasion in the port area of Neiafu, Vavau.
Roads are barricaded, goods are searched, local shipping is restricted and teams of up to 300 villagers at a time are waging a war of extermina tion.
Mr. Gatty said that the campaign is going so well that the pest should be cleared out of the infested area within a reasonable time.