RATS!
A humorous interlude in the business at last night’s Council meeting came when a letter was read from a local shopkeeper asking for permission to lay a concrete wall between his foundations and the asphalt “to safeguard against the intrusion of vermin from the outside.” One Councillor said he had viewed the damage done to the footpath by rats in this particular case and “you could bury a sack of spuds in some of the holes.” Another Councillor bad gone to the trouble of measuring the size of some of the holes which lie declared were regular subways, while yet another said that the “blowholes” made by the rats reminded him of Whaka, Rotorua. The Council, realising the danger of someone disappearing down one of these “blowholes” one day granted permission to the applicant to do the necessary' work to prevent the rodents from further intrusion.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2706, 11 March 1924, Page 3
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147RATS! Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2706, 11 March 1924, Page 3
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