BRUCE COUNTY COUNCIL.
[Special to the Star.]
MILTON, February 4. Angus Rtoele appeared before the Council in reference to plague rats, which, he alleged, were in an old house at Clarendon, near his dwelling-house. He said that a Mrs Croft had filled this old house with wheat and oats, and that rats gathered there in great numbers. She took tho grain away, but the rats still remained. They were a great nuisance to him. His statement that the two things he most abhorred were tobacco smoke and rats was received with laughter. He asked the Council to abate a public nuisance, as it was their duty, under the Public Health Act. Nothing was done in the matter, Mr Steele being told that the Council could not take any action unless be could show that the rats were infected with plague. Mr John M‘Neil (chairman of the Clutba County Council) and Cr Mitchell {manager of the Clydevaie station) waited on the Council and asked that the charges for the maintenance of the working of tho Clydevaie pnnt be equally charged to the Bruce and Clutha counties. This was agreed to at the meeting to-day.
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Evening Star, Issue 11673, 4 February 1902, Page 4
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193BRUCE COUNTY COUNCIL. Evening Star, Issue 11673, 4 February 1902, Page 4
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