KILLING MOSQUITOES.
AN ISLAND BAY CRUSADE. The post bag brings some curious things. A recent mail brought Tiie Dominion halt an envelope of dead fiwsquitoes. However, nn Accompanying note explained,. Tho, ii'ilo was from Mr. W. Prince, of Lifl'ey Si root, Island Bay. 110 sai<l:— "Would you kindly iivfonn your readers that they need not fear to spend their holidays now at Island 13ay oil account of the mosquito trouble there, as I liavo destroyed thousands there this week, and there 'are very few alive now. I would, like, wlien 1 get more kerosene, to -finish the fev; that are left alive. 1 wish to thank those kind friends who havo helped me with kerosene this week. I. send you a sample of my work, and visitors can now see the poils along the road covered with dead mosquitoes." The sample of Mr. Prince's work was the contents of t.ho envelope. The work appears to be thorough—the mosquitcca were very dead.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1223, 4 September 1911, Page 4
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161KILLING MOSQUITOES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1223, 4 September 1911, Page 4
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