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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 143, 19 June 1922, Page 8

A former Dunedin resident, writing from Lupaardsvlei (Transvaal) last month to relatives in Dunedin (says the "Star"), stated: "Word has just come that a swarm of locusts 200 miles long and of indefinite width has passed out of the Kalahari Desert. All the natives have fled before it, the water holes being chock-a-block with locusts, so that there is danger of death from thirst to anyone remaining. This swarm is what is known as the 'voet-ganger.' This means the 'foot-walking' stage, the stage_ preceding that of flight. Voetgangers aro more destructive to growing things than even the flying locusts, ana when they have passed over a spot not one vestige of growth remains. Efforts on the part of the Agricultural Department to cope with this pest have proved futile. When they can be reached poisonous sprays are used to good effect; but they travel with the wind, and when all arrangements for their reception at a given spot are made the wind changes suddenly, and ' 'bout ship' go the locusts. The cost to the country of their depredations must run into hundreds of thousands of pounds annually. They are heavily charged with fat, and are greedily devoured by fowls, who, though, often develop 'gastric flu' after partaking too freely of them." "ANCHOR BRAND" genuine superfine butter and the world's choicest. 16oz blocks 1/9 at grocers.— (Ad.)