Rats Destroy Peas
Not far from Wellington a crop of peas in a domestic garden was harves.ted by bush rats, states a j member of tlib Forest and Bird Protection Society. The ga.rden is hard up against a fiiie piece of 1 bush, the rats were observed to ; cliriib up the sticks supporting the. peas, fill their cheeks with peas, ajid | make off. It would appear thatj they were taking the peas to their ! young. This bush seems to be ; swarpiing with rats. A IJ&Wy Pet A ISst. Great Dane, Brutus com- j niands most attention at the small I co.untry .hotel at Meeanee, five miles from Napier. Five years old, he .mea^urqs 32in from shoulder tp grourid, and when ' he stands up- j rigH'f—of "as near as he can — j against h.is. mistress, Mrs. C. W. Jlole, he approaches six feet. There : is 'riothing frightening about Brmus. I Always appjoachable, he is more ofteh willirig' to effect an introductioii 'himself. He eats half a sheep a week, but "that is not as expen- , sive a proposition as it sounds. Mrs. Hole bought a line of in-lamb ewes at 7s 6d each. The lambs latej broifght a (gpo,d price,caq^ ^ith thb skins of the ewes, a profit was m , 1
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 April 1946, Page 4
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