Bitten By Centipede
(N.Z Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 24. Curiosity got the better of Robin Aim, an 11-yeair-old standard four pupil of West End School. New Plymouth, today It cost him a swollen hand, three injections, pills to take for a few days, and half a day off school. The cause was a tropical centipede found by bis father, Mr S. A. Aim, a St. Aubyn street grocer, in a case of Samoan bananas Robin took it to school in a jar. He opened the jar to give everyone a better look. While he was retrieving it it bit him between the thumb and forefinger Within seconds his hand was badly swollen and he was rubied to a doctor.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30192, 25 July 1963, Page 16
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