"RACKET" DANGER SEEN
BONUS FOB DEAD BATS (0.C.) SYDNEY, July 21. Racketeers would start rat farms if any bonus payment were offered for the destruction of rats, the metropolitan medical officer of health, Dr. Grahame Drew, said, commenting on a report that the Hobart City Council had set a price of 6a on the head of every rat, dead or alive. Dr. Drew said: "The scheme has its good and bad points. One of the bad points is that racketeers would breed rats. Rats breed three times a year and there are about ten rats in each litter. It has been estimated that the descendants of a pair of rats would total 20,000,000 in three years if they were unchecked. There are possibilities in a rat racket."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 181, 2 August 1944, Page 4
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