CENTIPEDE IMPORTED
FRUITERERS’ DISCOVERIES Dominion Special Service Christchurch, March 6. When a city fruiterer was opening a case of Samoan bananas which had recently arrived he was startled to see a large centipede wriggle out. Before it could escape it was trapped between some boards and eventually gersuaded to enter a bottle where it would be safe from inflicting injury on anyone who might again encounter it suddenly. The creature is about six inches long and amber coloured and with black rings around the trunk a little less than a quarter of an inch apart. It has 22 pairs of legs which join the body at the rings. The fruiterer when aproached by a reporter to-day stated that he had seen centipedes in eases of bananas before, but not as big as the one encountered yesterday. He had come across cockroaches several times and a black one once three inches in length. In the last lot of bananas there were cockroaches which made a hissing noise. Another fruiterer said that centipedes in banana cases were fairly common, but immediately they were discovered they were killed. A black centipede quite nine inches in length was one evening encountered on the stairs of a shop by a girl.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 138, 7 March 1930, Page 11
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206CENTIPEDE IMPORTED Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 138, 7 March 1930, Page 11
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