PLAG HE OF HATS. “ 1 only spoke of the last twelve months to the rural council. The plague of rats has existed for two or three years,” said Air A. Ashdown, of Ongar, to an “ Evening Standard ” representative. He complained of the rats at the local council meeting. “In addition to annoyance, their depredations have cost me a considerable sum of money,” Air Ashdown said to-day. “ Only a month or. so ago T paid €7 l()s for having a floor taken up. Eight dead rats were underneath. Hats do not run about my promises, because there is nothing on which they can feed, but they run up and own between the walls and make so much noise that my wife and I and the children are awakened, and mv assistants complain that they cannot sleep. 1 let rooms above some of my shops, but the tenants have all gone because of the rats. A shower following a dry spell brings hundreds of rats to the roof of my 'shop, and you can watch them climbing down the drainpipe. Ido not think a great deal-of the council's idea of getting a filui and lantern slides showing the habits ol rats and mice.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1928, Page 8
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