MILLIONS OF HUNGRY MICE
Received Weduesdfiy, 7.0 p.m. MBLBOURXE, April 2. Millions of mxqe are cavismg sarions damage in tbe Yictorian mallee diatrict. rtungry mice kave invaded homes, stores and farm biiildipgs and are eating everytliing that appears rem'qtely edible, Thousapds are kiUed by motQrists every day in the atreets of the maliea towns, Storekeepers have cancelled essential ' orderg for hran, pollard and other I stock foods. Oue storekeeper reports | having trapped 886 mice in two inghts, Whe'at wf gpuring from damaged bags on railway sidings where thouaands of hags are stacked awaiting transport. Gaixgs of men with fumigators are being rushed to the area. Men wlio have been fighting mice in Soutff Australia will try to save 84,000 bags of wheat at three railway sidings. Wheat contaminated by mice will he sold as fowl and pig feed. '"por weeks oue farnier who poisons mice with strychnine, has heen bury ing them at up tq 3000 daily but is losing the hattie, They have destroyed all his ' carpets and the insulation in his walls.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 April 1947, Page 5
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174MILLIONS OF HUNGRY MICE Chronicle (Levin), 3 April 1947, Page 5
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