Members of the Auckland city engineer’s staff have been busy in Auckland placing tar oil in the cess pits and stormwater drains to prevent mosquitoes from breeding. The work is carried out every two or three weeks in dry weather during the summer, beginning in November. The cess pits and drains are first Hushed out with clean water and a quantity of oil is then poured in to form a skin over the surface of the water remaining in the sump.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 11
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