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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1989.
MASKS FOR FLY
PLAGUE
They use their gas masks every day at Stanwell.
No, not for A.R.P. practice, but so that they can do shopping and housework.
'They wear them to keep flies from getting in their mouths, noses and eyes.
A plague of black flies is infesting the new council estate, built on the borders of the Staines Reservoir,
When I walked down the main street of the estate there were no children playing in the gardens, The windows of the pretty little red brick villas were shut tight and curtains were drawn, The village seemed dead.
woman was one
There
Viola-street, Stanwell.
out in She W&S
brushing her front doorstep, and wore a gas-mask.
"Hello," she said when I passed. "The flies aren't so bad to-day, are they?"
I knocked at Mrs. Western's front door, and she let me in hurriedly, slamming the door.
COUNCIL COMPLAINS
"I am sorry," she said, “but I've just been sweeping flies from my kitchen, and I don't want to get it full of them again. They get in
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the food and even in my powder in Air Pilots Are Busy
my bedroom.”
"It's horrid," Mrs. Donovan, an-
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The
other resident, told me. "Although Atlantic--In A Room
we seal up the whole house, they get inside and invade the pantry, spoil- ing all the food. Yesterday there was half an inch of them on my baby's perambulator.
"The children are terrified. Re- turning from school they have to cover their heads with their coats and run for home.
In 2 little 100m overlooking Southampton docks, a group of men are daily flying the North Atlantic
in theory. They are the officers who will man the British flying-boat services to begin this summer be tween Southampton, via Foynes in Eire, and Montreal.
In front of this little group are
boat's dash through the air.
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b application. Out on the Atlantic, ships of all na- tions wireless their meteorological BANKING CORPORATION data, but for the opening up of the air crossing vessels specially equip- at suitable ped will be stationed points.
Anchored in mid-ocean, they will
be floating observatories in touch
"The estate has only been built a
year.
Unless the authorities do charts showing the whole route. A continuously with shore
something to stop this plague, we
about sages brings information weather conditions on various sec- tions of the route and at varying altitudes.
continuous stream of wireless mes-
are going to get up a petition."
Protests have already resulted in Staines Urban Council sending a complaint to the Metropolitan Water
The messages come from ground Board, and a request that steps be
stations on the other side of the taken to remedy the nuisance.
Atlantic, from ships crossing the An official of the Metropolitan ocean, and from data collected by Water Board told me: "We are re-meteorological experts on this side, To such perfection has this sys- plying to the council that we will spray the banks of the reservoir at tem of wireless communication been That is all we can do. We brought that when actual crossings can't stop the flies from breeding. begin ground stations on either side
"The real trouble lies in the fact will
once.
that the new housing estate has been built too near to the reservoir. Tests harmless and show that the fly is does not carry disease or bite."
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when you fly
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Now, these messages are being used daily in the little room at Southampton, which resembles the control cabin of the flying-boat, to plan imaginary voyages.
Organisation that will operate during the actual flights is main-
tained to the smallest detail. Allow.
stations
floating
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