THE RAT SCOURGE.
Bats cost the world £2,000,000,000 a Tear. London alone harbours some 7,500,°°0 rats, and there are probably 45,000,°°0 in the British Isles, breeding at the *»te of 500 rats for each pair in th« year. no wonder that, in spite of "rat weeks, Poisons, fumigants, traps, gassing marines, and many other means, the rats ar e beating us and that the damage caused hy the rodents increases. Ham, bur g, one of the most progressive cities, See Disto have solved the problem by faking all its building rat proof. En- ! lr e blocks of warehouses and" shops, formerly infested by colonies of, rats, fe entirely free, and it is . impossible Sfi the rats to return to their former t4
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 102, 2 May 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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122THE RAT SCOURGE. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 102, 2 May 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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