Rats and Rubbish
Sir,—-The Wellington City Council apparently accepts without demur the condition of the city’s rats. Yes, rats, not rates. If some of the diligence now exercised over the rate nuisance were devoted to the rat nuisance it would be bette.r for the well-being of citizens. As a faet the business part of the city is I overrun with rodents, and nothing is done to cope with the horror. It will be news, no doubt, to our wise councillors, that Paris has started a municipal stud farm for cats to produce the most efficient type of ratters. The myriads of stray cats that abound here making night hideous affect private residences more than do the rats. When a day’s holiday occurs in Wellington the whole system of garbage collection seems to be thrown out of routine for weeks, resulting in overflowing trash-cans which poison the air and encourage rats to come about. Nearby residents use the wire baskets attached to poles to put in their house refuse, thus causing horrible messes in the streets.—l am, etc., P. PIPER. Wellington, January 9.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 11
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182Rats and Rubbish Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 11
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