John Bolton, Yandarra Downs, Kwelkan, writes to Mr. Oates about his broadcast to primary and secondary schools. Bolton also writes about snakes in his local area.
Bolton comments on Oates' search for an insect parasite to combat grasshoppers.
Bolton writes of killing nine snakes since early spring, most of them Brown snakes.
He is uncertain of another snake and provides a description.
Bolton is a correspondence pupil - Std. 8. - of the Education Department.
Oates was broadcasting as part of Our Rural Magazine, a monthly magazine produced between 1926 and 1946 by the WA Correspondence School of the Education Department of Western Australia for school children who were located in isolated circumstances.
See: File A220-75-17 Natural Science - Enquiries and Requests
SeeAlso: A220-75-17-105
