BABY BITTEN BY RAT
OC AUCKLAND, This Day. Awakened at 3 o'clock yesterday morning by the screams of their ten-months-old baby, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Clewes, of 218 Queen Street, Onehunga, were horrified to find that the infant had been bitten by a rat. The child was sleeping in a cot at their bedside, and examination showed that one of its fingers bore seven distinct chisel bites, and the back of the hand and right temple had also been bitten. Mr. Clewes, who is a chemist, applied remedies. While he was doing so the rat reappeared and ran up the chimney, whereupon Mr. Clewes lit a newspaper in the fireplace. The smoke brought the rat down, but it escaped. Shopkeepers and other residents complain that rats in- Onehunga have never b£en so numerous or destructive as during the present winter, and adversely comment on the failure of the local authorities to deal with ' the menace. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 6
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BABY BITTEN BY RAT
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 6
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