WAR ON RATS His intention to ask the Wellington City Council to enforce strictly its bylaw requiring householders to keep all refuse bins covered was announced on Saturday by the chairman of the council’s health committee, Cr. R. H. Nimmo, who said reports indicated that rats were getting out of hand in the city area, “Though any number of excuses may be advanced, this city has to be cleaned up,” he said. In the last few weeks there had been three cases of babies being bitten while asleep; one was a Wellington case, the others being in Auckland. Those cases had brought the menace home to some people. The last anti-rat drive, he said. I had been brought to a stop when the available poison stocks were used up and traps were not obtainable, but a further stock of the poison had been obtained.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24022, 10 August 1943, Page 5
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