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Beetle
Report from New Hebrides
LL the Pacific Islands are fol- A. lowing, with keen interest, Fiji’s war against the Rhino vos Beetle, and helpful comments >d suggestions have been offered, it it now is becoming better iderstood that there is more than • e kind of Rhino Beetle in the lands.
For example, our agent in Tahiti, r. Oscar Nordman, wrote specially our correspondent in Fiji, Mr. lortall, with an interesting item. ?. Nordman said that his daughter the New Hebrides had been in :med by M. Graziani that he be ved the flamboyant tree was fatal the Beetle. M. Graziani said at, almost any morning, one might 3 dead Beetles under the flam yants which line the waterside Santo.
Mr. Shortall took the story to Mr.
Harvey, who, as Director of Agri- Iture, directs the Fiji anti-Beetle ir. Mr. Harvey produced an old port on the Beetle situation in . Samoa in 1910. The report de ribes the planting there of flam yants as a counter measure, it .ving been reported from the lomons that these trees had been und to attract the insect pests ray from the coconut palms.
However, it is now known, Mr. irvey explained, that the Beetle Samoa and Fiji is an entirely Eferent creature to that in the lomons, which seemingly does tie damage. The Samoa-Fiji riety of beetle —which has also ne great damage in the Palau ands and is reported in New linea since the Jap occupation— s not been reported from the New abridges; so it must be assumed at the insects reported by M. •aziani are of the same variety as ose in the Solomons. Of all the etles so far discovered in Fiji, not e has been found on or under a mboyant tree.
Cinder date of June 24, our Tahiti reports that Governor titbon has issued orders that all ssels arriving at Papeete from linoceros-beetle infested areas will ordered to sea before sunset each y- Mr. John Trotter, General Man er in Fiji for Burns Fhilp (South as) Co. Ltd., retired in June account of continued ill-health, the annual meeting in May the tairman of Directors (Sir Henry ott, OC) paid a warm tribute to r. Trotter’s services to the Co. d to the Fiji community. Mr. otter has been with Burns Philp : 35 years in Tonga and Fiji.