Something in the nature of a minor plague of rats has established itself in a certain locality on Hospital Hill, and residents are suffering considerably from the depredations of the marauding rodents (reports the Napier “Telegraph”). It is not generally known that rats include fruit fresh from the tree in their menu,'but a Napier householder stated to a reporter that while employed at the back of her residence recently she watched a large rat climb up the trunk of a plum tree and proceed to make a hearty meal of the fruit hanging in profusion from the branches.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 111, 8 February 1928, Page 13
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98Untitled Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 111, 8 February 1928, Page 13
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