BEETLES AS TENANTS
A little house is shortly to be built, "somewhere in ( Buckinghamshire," which from the outside will seem to have “al! modern conveniences." Actually, however, the house—which will cost £looo—will have been plentifully Irrficulnted with dry-rot fungus, und death-watch beetles (whose kin devoured the old oak of Westminster Hall) will hold undisputed revels in the roof. These undesirable “tenants” will be permitted to do their worst, while scientists from the Forest Products Resftireh institute at Princes Risborougb (Buckinghamshire), the Building Research Station at Watford (Hertsfordshire), and other Government centres will-look on and increase their knowledge of the pests which cause such dajnnge to Britain’s buildings.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 2
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107BEETLES AS TENANTS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 2
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