RATS.
(To the Editor.) Sir —T think the time has arrived for the authorities to consider the prudence of compelling all steamers and vessels arriving from infected ports, to lighter in the stream, and so prevent rats landing from same at the wharves. If, unfortunately the plague should break out in Auckland, and be traced to infected rats, it will be all too late to adopt this precaution.—I am, etc.,
E. WYNN-WILLIAMS, Halvday's Buildings, iShoTtland-st Auckland, March sth, 1900.
Sh\—No doubt we have professional rat catchers in our midst. The Harbour Board and the City Council should offer a reward per 100 dead or alive, and the latter should then be drowned and the whole cremated. —Yours, etc.,
PEO BONO PUBLICO-I
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 6 March 1900, Page 2
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