RATS
A GROWING MENACE Warning against the growing menace of rats in the town was given by Mr C. L. Jordan at last Thursday’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. “The problem,” he said, “is becoming worse and worse and as one who leaves his premises late at night I can assure you that rats can be seen crossing the Strand in droves. Something in the nature of a concerted effort should be made to control them.”
Mr Jordan said he did not think the average man in the street realised how much the place was alive with the vermin.
Mr Canning pointed out that the Borough Council was distributing poison free to residents who desired to help themselves. The Harbour Board he complained of as being the main culprit, though he admitted a few haunted the Borough Council’s rubbish tip—one or two jerseys and holsteins.
Mr Brabant endorsed Mr Jordan’s remarks relating Viow at one time he had seen literally ‘millions’ on the harbour-side.
A sub-committee comprising Messrs. Jordan, Chapman and Dixon was set up to go into the matter of a concerted action by the townspeople as a whole and to report back.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 63, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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