I “Don’t disturb them and they won t [disturb you.” There is no danger as ! long as you keep away from rotting vegeItation." On the subject of how best to ! avoid being bitten by katipos, poisonous i spiders, which are to be found in the t marram grass and driftwood on trie j sand, that was the advice given by two ' New Brighton doctors, who were interviewed by a Christchurch reporter. Several of the spiders have been found at New Brighton recently, but an old resident stated that they are not in any greater numbers now than in the past, when they were always the cause of a certain amount of uneasiness among visitors to the seaside.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 11
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