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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 216, 26 August 1927, Page 8

Followers of the serial at the Municipal Pictures should note that this will be screened at the Cosv tomorrow afternoon, but not in the evening. The Municipal Theatre is closed during ie-decoratinu. and this course is being adopted to preserve the continuity of the episodes in “The Silent Rider.” A New Plymouth resident found that both rats and mice entered an outhouse and took toll of fowl feed, so he baited a mouse and a rat trap. Next morning he found the rat trap untouched and the mouse trap missing. He traced the hitter to the mouth of the rat’s burrow. The rat had evidently seen the mouse in the small trap and had tried to drag it away to its nest. The mouse trap was too large for the burrow, but the rat wai not to be denied. He skinned the mouse, and all the resident found in the trap was the rolled up skin of the smaller rodent. Rats are known to have cannibalistic tendencies, and the above would suggest that this one, though, he did not eat his brother, certainly devoured his smaller rw’afr-n