[?]ua-N. Guinea is Warned

Against Giant Toad

correspondent in a New Guinea paper has been urgently warning itories folk against the intro on of the Queensland cane toad— t late, as the reptile was estab d in the New Britain area just re the war. ; says the toads have spread >s the Bundaberg area of Queens in countless millions, and now i pest of a kind far more serious the canefields insects they were ght in to destroy. He says they ite freshwater streams, and have d out the kookaburra (jackass), h feeds upon them, lis, presumably, is the same kind jad that was introduced to Fiji protect the sugar-cane against ;ts. It did the job assigned to i Fiji, and it now is extremely erous; but it is not the great ince that it is alleged to be in ral Queensland.