[?]Coa Pest In New Guinea

[ PEST called simply “the ft. cocoa beetle” is giving cocoa f planters along the Madang iast and at Lae a lot of trouble, [is a small brown thing which res in the green vegetation, and tacks the young cocoa. Planters ive been keeping it under control I spraying with a Shell Co. oduct called Dieldrin, with a tergent added “to make it stick”; it this is not completely effective.

Department of Agriculture is ilping by making an entomologist railable, to study the pest.