THE MICE NUISANCE
Sir,—The City Council cannot be congratulated on its apathetic attitude towards this matter. All it has done so far is .to insert a small, futile advertisement in “The Press,” diffidently requesting people to do something about it, and offering to sell poison at so much a tin If the council really wants to do something useful, why not procure for sale a supply of poisoned wheat, one pound of which is better than a dozen tins of poison? I have proved over many years that nothing else is so effective as poisoned wheat, which is clean and easy to use. and also cheap and simple to prepare. I fail to see why supplies of such a cheap, reliable exterminator are not made available.—Yours, etc., BANKS PEN.
May 5. 1943. [The Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) said the City Council preferred rat poison to poisoned wheat because it was more hygienic and safer. The poison sold by the City Council consumed mice or rats, but other poisons only killed them and left the bodies to decompose. There was a danger with poisoned wheat that it might get into places where it was found by domestic animals and birds, or even by children.]
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23944, 11 May 1943, Page 6
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