WHITE BUTTERFLY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1934, Page 10

WHITE BUTTERFLY.

NO REWARD FOR CAPTURE,

CHILDREN' DISAPPOINTED.

Industrious Auckland youths 111 quest of pocket money for tlie last portion of their school holidays have been sadly disappointed during the week. Under the impression that a reward has been offered for the capture of the white butterfly, which is most destructive to gardens, the younger generation of Auckland has been waging war on the butterflies, and during the past few days there lias been a procession of youngsters to the City Council and the Department of Agriculture, eager to cash in their captures. They have been told that, destructive as the butterfly may be, 110 bounty has been placed on its head or wings. That the white butterfly has come to Auckland in strong force is shown by the "bags" which have been presented. Tins and bottles containing hundreds of butterflies have been displayed to the authorities,- but the only consolation the lads have received is the knowledge that they are doing a good service to "the gardens of the city and suburbs. Two years ago, when Hawke's Bay districts suffered from a plague of white butterflies, there was a similar display of enterprise by the youth there, and it was not an uncommon thing for bucketfuls of them to be taken to official quarters in anticipation of a reward. There, too, there was the same disappointment.