Rat Poison Eaten In Mountain Hut
[Special to “Northern Advocate."} NEW PLYMOUTH. This Day. A party of three men, members of a party spending the week-end at Tahurangi Hut. high on the slopes of Mt. Egmont, collapsed as the result of eating rat poison, which became accidentally mixed with their food. Emetics were given them and all recovered without the need of medical aid. Poison was laid about the. hut the week before last, to deal with rats, which had been troublesome, but the party of nine who camped at the were not aware of this, and somehow got the poison mixed with their food.
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Northern Advocate, 26 July 1938, Page 3
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