A determined offensive against. Great Britain’s deadliest pest, the rat, is in full swing. Scientists regard the rat asi one of the greatest menaces to the health of mankind. It is estimated that rats and mice cost Great Britain alone £77,000,000 a year. This figure was quoted by the Duke of Sutherland at the College of Pestologv a short time ago. Every autumn a week’s intensive warfare is organised, and both municipalities andi private citizens are impressed with the importance of the slogan: “Kill that rat!” A pest which does damage to the enormous extent of £200,000,000 a year to American agriculture, compels France to foot an annual bill for £40,000,000, and has been responsible for a million deaths in India by disease during the past quarter of a century, is a world foe to be reckoned with.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1932, Page 5
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138Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1932, Page 5
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