RAT POISON
Grant For University Research
A grant of £25 has been made by the Wellington City Council to Victoria University College toward the cost of research work to improve the method of poisoning rats. x . At a meeting of the council last night Cr. B. Todd tsaid there -jvcrc many disappointed would-be ratcatchers in M ellington. Generally speaking the poison which had been supplied by the council was completely useless. In the first place the rats would not take it and in the second, if they did, they throve on it. The reason why. it had been issued in the past was that it was non-poisonous to dogs, cats and infants —but it was also noji-poisonous to rats. Cr. R. IL Nimmo said that the poison, barium, became ineffective when used with meat, as it had been in the past. The experiments were to investigate the possibility of making it up in an effective biscuit form. Meantime a substantial quantity of ratnip had been imported' from the United States on special licence and was now on issue to the' public. It was absolutely “death on rats.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 121, 17 February 1944, Page 4
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187RAT POISON Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 121, 17 February 1944, Page 4
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