THE RAT PEST.
WHAT IT COSTS. (Received February 8, B*lo a.m.) LONDON, February 7. The well-known medical man, Sir James Crichton-Browne, speaking at a conference at the Guildhall to discuss the question of the rat pest, said rats cost a farthing daily for maintenance and damage. That was on an estimated basis of a rat for every acre. Hence the damage caused by rats in England and Wales amounted to fifteen million pounds sterling t a year.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10160, 9 February 1911, Page 5
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77THE RAT PEST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10160, 9 February 1911, Page 5
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