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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3195, 15 April 1911, Page 10

Twenty-one old age pensions live in the village of Bintry, Norfolk,, _ which has a population of 300. Their ages aggregate 1,649 i years, the oldest being ninety-five and the youngest seventyone. The Orchard Inspector in Hawke’s Bay reports that on visiting several orchards in and around Hastings, which are somewhat .badly infested with woolly aphis, or American blight, lie has noticed a common New Zealand ladybird—the eleven-spotted ladybird (Coccinella punctata) —doing good work by feeding upon the aphis. He states that close observation extending over several days clearly demonstrated that these useful little insects effected, a very considerable improvement in the condition of affected trees—in some instances the trees were almost cleaned. A fortnight later he found that the ladybirds were disapoearing rapidly from the orchards, but that, wherever the number had been large, the good that had been done was unmista'keable. This ladybird is readily recognised as of red color, with eleven black spots.