When a complete company of Mounted Rifles was in camp near Wanganui recently, sections of the men had a competition in collecting katipo spiders. The director of the Auckland WaiMemorial Museum, Mr. Gilbert Archey, heard of this competition at the time of receiving a request from the British Museum authorities for a collection of k.-rtipo spiders for the use of a scientist who is studying the venom of certain classes of spiders. Mr. Archey applied to the camp for the spiders secured as a result of the competition, and these are being sent to England in fulfilment of the request.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 206, 28 May 1938, Page 12
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