RATS AND DISEASE
CHARGE AGAINST HEALTH DEPARTM EXT. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 10. The introduction of a patent to ilie Industrial Association this evening led to a charge of neglect on the part of the Health Department. Mr IT. 1.. Worthington exhibited a combined rat trap and hawser disc, of whirl) lie is the inventor, and stated that lie had had two hundred pounds worth of appliances manufactured on the strength of an Order-in-Council making it compulsory for suitable appliances to he affixed to mooring ropes in order to prevent disease bearing rodents from coming ashore. According to the Order shipping companies were under a heavy penalty if they failed to provide this safe guard hut ho alleged that in frequent cases the precaution was not observed. It was resolved to communicate with Hie Public Health Department, expressing the wish of the. Association that in the interests of the public the Order-in-Council should be observed.
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Southland Times, Issue 17599, 11 March 1914, Page 5
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