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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1966Vol. 37, No. 4

The Defeat of Cockroaches

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

The cockroach, one of the most common and detestable of household insect pests has his favourite refuge in your home behind the workings of your refrigerator, stove or radio set. The reason for this, is that the electricity and motor affords him the heat he desires. He also lives in wardrobes and cupboards and eats clothing, particularly parts where there are food stains. The cockroach can survivc on glue from bookbacks, toothpaste, soap, rubber and most anything on which he can lay his feelers. He will even steal from the rim of your milk bottle or sugar basin.

One of the major reasons cockroaches are so prevalent in the world today is due to the very cautious approach they make to any suspicious object they encounter. They will even stand back a little to “sniff” succulent food and make inquisitive prods with their feelers before feeding. Because of this over-emphasised caution by cockroaches, it is an easy matter to wipe them out with a harmless, odourless and non-poisonous powder which does not arouse their suspicions.

Pea-Beu cockroach powder is the

safe, modern, quick and easy method of exterminating the roach population in your home. Cockroaches unwittingly walk into the odourless Pea-Beu powder without fear and are destroyed.

Pea-Beu has the further advantage that its powerful killing action lasts indefinitely, as an exhaustive series of experiments carried out in the laboratories of A.N.I. Chemical Research conclusively proved. In a test conducted by Dr. Keith Watling, a roach was brought into contact with Pea-Beu cockroach powder which had been laid six months previously. Within a short time, the cockroach died.

The powder employed in this test was further subjected to similar conditions experienced in the average home, yet even after six months of exposure it still retained its original powerful, lethal action, proving the tremendous long-life of Pea-Beu Cockroach Powder.

Subsequent tests were to reveal that numbers of the cockroaches absorbed the powder through their legs and feelers and some of the stronger ones returned to their nests contaminating

the roaches who had not been exposed to the powder. In this manner com plete nests were eliminated.

Sprinkled in drawers and cupboards, around electrical appliances, along skirting boards, under carpets and rugs, and all other places where they hide and breed, Pea-Beu cockroach powder will effectively proof your home and outside buildings against these irritating pests.

Cockroaches, like all other insect pests, also fall easy victims to powerful deep-penetrating “safe”

Pea-Beu aerosol spray. This high potency liquid spray has a wide “umbrella-spreading” action that is capable of rapidly killing all insect pests. The fume-like spray success fully distributes itself to penetrate into every hidden crack and crevice in a room, even reaching and penetrating cracks in the interiors of cupboards and drawers.

Powerful Pea-Beu aerosol insecti cides are guaranteed not to contain any poisonous bases such as DDT, BHC, Lindane or Chlordane, and are completely safe to use in the presence of food, children and pets.

No cockroach (not even the small hardy 'German') is im mune to the lethal power of either Pea-Beu aerosol spray or to the everlasting non-poisonous Pea-Beu cockroach powder.