Household Pests. —At the beginning of each winter the entry of homes and business premises by rats and mice seeking shelter from the cold is expected, but this year the numbers invading bouses appear to have increased (says the Otago Daily Times). In some suburban homes mice have become a pest, iii dealing with which some difficulty lias been experienced and there lias been a substantial increase compared with the number lor last year in the applications for rat poison that have been made at the Sanitary Department’s office in the Town Hall. An official of the department slated, however, that so far as tie was aware rats were not being allowed to increase in numbers. Frequent inspections were made of premises where food was stored, and ills observations showed that in recent years limy had been more free of rats than ever before.
Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Influenza Colds.
In Presteigne, in the County of Radnor, curfew is still tolled at 6 .o'clock every evening.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18952, 23 May 1933, Page 3
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