A Yukky Pest

The cockroach has come in for much vilification recently due to its increased influx into the city and widespread publicity about the pest. And pest it is, along with mice, rats and flies — the type of life that gives most people the creeps. An all-out campaign to keep the cockroach under control is not going amiss. Radio Gisborne ran a contest to see who could trap the most cockroaches, and the biggest. Prizes were donated by the Walters and Kohn Pharmacy, and J. S. Allan & Son Ltd.

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A large cockroach — just in case you don't know what they look like.

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Some of the thousands of pests killed and entered in the contest.

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From left, Mr Dion Kohn presents a $10 voucher to Lorraine and Lynette Sayer for trapping the biggest of the species while Mr Tom Oates and Thomas, 6, receive a compost bin from Mr Ben Brabyn, of J. S. Allan's, for catching the most cockroaches. At right is 2ZG announcer Arthur Toms. He is holding the extra large one which was sent in by the Makaraka School.