WHITE ANTS

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3764, 30 September 1940, Page 5

WHITE ANTS

NOT LIKELY IN WAIKATO

POWER ■ BOARD DISCUSSION

"I have had. it on good authority that the white ant will not live in the Waikato as the termite cannot stand frosts," said <M;r J. W. Garland, at last week's meeting of the Cambridge Electric Power Board, when the pest was under discussion.

A letter was read from the Thames Valley Power Board,: requesting information as to whether the white ant had made itself felt in the Cambridge district. It was indicated that the ant had been brought into the country through the ironbark poles imported from Australia.

The engineer, Mr H. C Oaten, stated that he had replied to the letter, stating that there was nothing to indicate that the termite had been brought into the district by the importation of power poles. There had been one isolated case of the white ants having been in an old house in King Street, said the engineer, but it had been proved that the building had been attacked before poles-had ever been brought from Australia.