CLEANING-UP WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 281, 25 November 1921, Page 2

CLEANING-UP WEEK.

IN CITY AND COUNTRY. OOOD WORK ACCOMPLISHED. Kxeellent work is being accomplished in the campaign against rats in the city and on the wharves, the total from both sources during the present month being 1327, of which 1071 were accounted for in the city and 256 in the waterfront urea. The rat-catcher engaged by the Harbour Board is stamping out the pest with the use of two (logs and 50 traps; the traps are inspected twieo daily. While nothing is heard from suburban local authorities regarding thn numbers caught in th«> suburbs, it ia evident that good results are also being achieved in those districts, for application has been made to the Health Department from time to time for threepence per head for fata caught in the suburbs. The officials of the department have had to inform the applicants that the local authorities are paying for rats killed in their districts, uiid not tlie department. 11l the country districts also the work of killing off the rodents is proceeding. A general cleaning-up week also took place recently in the Morrlnsvillr, Te Aroha, Paeroa and Thames district*. wliilp Cambridge is co-operating with the department in the destruction of rat*. The Thames Borough Council notified residents that if they failed to complj with their notice to clean up that they would prosecute them. Regarding the general position the Medical Officer for thp Auckland district stated this morning that it was the duty of o.\GTy householder to see that the promises and surroundings were kept thoroughly clean. Particularly did thip refer to shopkeepers, lie mentioned tho fact that departmental officers were now supervising all the tips, and fenoee were bring erected around them with the iron from the old city markets. Tlie gates leading to the tips would be. closed when not in u»: by the authorities. This expedient would prevent people from dumping garbage on the tips and not covering it over with soil. He also mentioned the fact that the city engineer was seeking a site for thn dumping of tins, etc, collected in the city.