RATS
Sir,—Christchurch with its growing pains is becoming drab and dirty in appearance, while its numerous local bodies remain indifferent to a sense of civic pride, because of an apathetic attitude adopted In the discharge of their civic duties. Accordingly, rats and ratefc continue to increase. Many-rat-holes and pot-holes appear in the footpaths, and a loop-hole in the Health Act. A by-law is now disclosed in your editorial address on rats. However, there is a loon-hole in vour address to John Citizen, wherein you overtook the rat infested food stores and the menace which threatens public health, ever present in the baker, butcher and grocer shops and the hotels of this city.— Yours, etc., RIP VAN WINKLE. October 22, 1951.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26559, 23 October 1951, Page 2
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