PLAGUE OF RATS.
INVADE MINERS’ HOMES. BY CAELE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.55 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 24. A curious consequence of the coal strike is that rat® are forsaking; South Wales colleries in thousands, and are invading the miners’ dwellings, owing to the supply of grain not being available ivhen th© pit ponies were withdrawn. The rats are so numerous and daring that it is necessary to fight the plague. Men in Rhondda, Valley collected ferrets and dogs and organised a rat-killing campaign. They propose to enter the worst pits and to destroy the rats wholesale. —A. and N.Z. Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 9
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99PLAGUE OF RATS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 9
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