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Drive-In Mossies

rom a Port Moresby Correspondent y ort Moresby's up-to-date, drive movie theatre, the Sky-Line (which ? the first in the South Pacific ), r recently taken a tropical twist in war against mosquitoes. Mos toes are a drive-in hazard even in Iney and Brisbane (some patrons ng equipped with a pressure-pak ect spray); but at times in Port fresby they can be hell.

HE mosquito menace here is always at its worst around the ly months of the year (wet son) and Ward’s Strip, where the ve-in is situated, is the birthplace all of them. (Outsizes a specialty.) rhe management originally had a y impressive, but singularly in :ctive, spraying unit, which used back up and down the rows of s at interval, giving drivers palpita is as it narrowly missed children I bumper bars.

However, it achieved very little

else, and many motorists took to bringing their own nets, which they rigged up, over car and all, then proceeded to crawl in, caterpillar-like, for the duration of the show.

All these methods are now archaic.

As your ticket is purchased at the entrance, the uniformed attendant smartly hands out a mosquito coil with your change. Whether or not you acquire a metal stand on which to balance it depends on whether you arrive early or near the tail-end.

However, such a minor set-back as no coil-stand does not deter a Territorian-true. The coil hangs nicely on

a knob of the dash-board—prefer ably on the lights, as this helps as a reminder to turn them on when making that frantic get-away, 30 seconds before the film appears about to end.

The coil burns slowly, spells “death” to mosquitoes, scatters a minimum of ash on the floor, and doesn’t really make the car any more unbearably hot than it normally is.

As far as many Moresby people are concerned, it makes the difference between enjoying the drive-in, and not going at all. Voted definitely a good invention.