PLAGUE OF MICE
CAUSE IMMENSE DAMAGE \ TO WHEAT STACKS IN \ VICTORIA \ Millions of mice are invading j houses, shaps and public buildings, j and causing immense damage to j stacks in the wheat areas. i Cats and dogs have given up the | unequal fight. Farmers and railway i staff s are daily killing thousands of the invaders, and augmented train services are rushing wheat to the seaboard. ■ ' ; The shire secretary at Birchip (Mr. J. H. Lester) declared to-day that mice had taken charge of the towm Nightly boys go out with sticks, and each one who does not kill 800 has had a poor time. Mr. Lester says the town's cats and terriers almost give a friendly nod now when they pass a mouse in the street. Mounds of dead mice are being burned every day.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 188, 1 April 1932, Page 2
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