RAT WEEK.
Please permit, me space to record my thanks to the civic authorities for the measure? taken during "Rat Week"' to place free rat poison within easy reach of the householder. Tt 5< very inconvenient to have to call at the Town Hall for the'poisoned baits—in fact it is quite impossible to call daily for a supply for most people. But by having them distributed to a. few shops in each district it has enabled every troubled householder to wage effective war on these death-dealing rodents for a full week. This must have a devastating effect upon the ranks of the rats, but, unless repeated oftener than once a year, can have but a passing effect upon an animal whose fecundity is such that a single pair could produce SOO per annum, according to the report of Mr. C. F. Paull. So I should like to surest to the powers that be that "Rat Week," with its reminders to apathetic folk and improved facilities for the distribution of the poison baits, be held monthly, or. at least, quarterly. Thus would the good work now started be consolidated and another facet of social security be transferred from theorv to reality.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 141, 17 June 1939, Page 8
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200RAT WEEK. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 141, 17 June 1939, Page 8
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