RAT MENACE.
REGULATIONS TO PREVENT ' POSSIBLE PLAGUE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Minister of Public Health (Hon. W. Russell) states that, in consequence of reports from Auckland and Wellington at; to the existence of something in the nature of a rat menace, regulations were gazetted in 1911 to prevent or cheek the spread of a plague by rats, and these are to be put in force. Steps are to be taken to secure rats for examination, and the harbor boards are to be advised to destroy rats in buildinga on the wharves, and to make the buildings rat-proof if possible. Masters of ships will be required to produce certificates that their shipw have been subjected to anti-rat fumigation within Bix months.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1919, Page 5
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123RAT MENACE. Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1919, Page 5
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