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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 11

i People never were or will be satisfied i j with the weather. "Yes, but quite un- j I seasonabie,"' remarked the confirmed I grumbler when asked to admire a i summer-like day in the middle of winter. iOM hands are faying that the present I BUtiimn is the most unseasonabe that ; they can remember for a long while. In J soiiie parts of Auckland deciduous I shrubs have been misled into sending oiu I new shoots when they shoud be rei for next spring. Th;a mil-i----i ness is not, however, objectionable to I human beings. What they object to iis the belated crop of mosquitoes, sandj liics and other irritating live things that I have usually at this time of the year } succun:bed to the coid. These annoying i insects are very plentiful in many part 3 i of the city and suburb 3, and are specially j bad in low-lying parts where the water I can accumulate. Flies, too, are. usually ■by t!ie end of May gone tj that winter j abode or haunt the exact whereabouts of which used to cause such imI passioned queries on the musiei hall stage, but this year they are painfully prevalent in =oine localities. Householders shouli lose no opportunity of waging war against these insidious spreaders of disease, as this is just the sort of weather when they could ao a great deal of harm.