WAR AGAINST MALARIA
Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 29. A world-wide war against malaria and all insects is being conducted from a headquarters in Kenya, states a Nairobi message. The colony's pyrethrum farmers have undertaken to supply great quantities of the seed wherever they are required. Ten tons are to be dispatched to Russia to restart the Caucasian industry, and large consignments will be sent to Brazil to meet the needs of the United States. Smaller consignments will be sent to Australia. Jamaica, Ceylon, | Egypt, Nigeria, and elsewhere to start plantations.—B.O.W.
Pyrethrum is the source of “insect powder.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 232, 1 October 1943, Page 5
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