PLAGUE OF LIZARDS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2142, 27 December 1920, Page 5

PLAGUE OF LIZARDS.

A plague of lizards is 'afflicting the towns and villages which border on the prairie lakes and sluices of Canada. At Ninette 2000 lizards were shovelled out of the basement window-shaft at the Government sanatorium. In the doctor's quarters 60 were counted. Motor-car drivers have to keep skid chains on their cars, „as the roads are made slippery by a surface of living lizards. Many of the people keep indoors rather than venture out because of the disagreeable sensation of crunching a lizard underfoot. The lizard is more treacherous than banana peel. The little reptiles, which vary from 4 inches to 18 inches in length, travel by night only, and are on .their annual trek from the lakes to find suitable crevices in which to hibernate.