THE MICE MENACE
Sir, —As the originator or the suggestion for a campaign against mice and rats, I have first to thank you for the publicity you have given the subject. My chief reason for urging a concerted attack on these vermin is their menace to public health. However. I am glad to have the support of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, which is more concerned, apparently, in loss of profits due to rats and mice. Further to “Banks Pen’s” letter urging immediate action and the Mayor’s reply, I think the following quotation from this month’s copy of the “New Zealand Grocers’ Review’’ should make us realise that the longer the delay in launching the attack the greater will be the need therefor. “A pair of rats, left undisturbed, will breed at the rate of 880 in the first year, a female rat becoming a grandmother before she is three months old.”—Yours, etc., PIED PIPER. May 11, 1943. [This correspondence is now closed.— Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23945, 12 May 1943, Page 4
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