Rat Attacks Infant Girl
WELLINGTON, Thu. (P.A.)—A rat attacked an eight-months-old girl, Men Smiler. at her home in Hutt Road, Kaiwarra, on Tuesday morning. The baby was taken to the public hospital with injuries to her right hand and right ear. She is being treated as an out-patient. The rat had bitten into her hand six or seven times, ripping the flesh as it dre’.v its teeth away. A fortnight ago her two-year-old cousin, living in the same house, also had his finger bitten by a rat while he was asleep. Meri Smiler’s father. Mr W. Smiler, who is on the waiting list for a state house, said the house he was at present sharing was an old one and the ground underneath was riddled with rat holes. lie thought the presence of wool stores across the road and a cake kitchen next door might be among the reasons for the presence of rats. Sometimes they had caught five or six rats in a night.
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1948, Page 8
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