TROUBLED BY RATS
EATING WOOL OFF LIVE SHEEP ENDEAVOUR TO SAVE FLEECES Rats arc eating the ayool off the sheep's backs, in parts of Hughenden district and some pastoralists are rushing their sheep to the shears in an endeavour to save the fleeces. Another report states that the leg:« of young lambs in the Win ton district have been badly bitten by rat?. In the Boulia district one stationowner poisoned <>252 rats in three nights. In places in the far West rats have tunnelled under the posts of fences and when rain comes the fences will probably fall over.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 234, 6 November 1940, Page 3
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99TROUBLED BY RATS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 234, 6 November 1940, Page 3
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