Black in colour, with particularly long ears, a rat caught at Onehunga, Auckland, recently, had the appearance of a kiore, the New Zealand native rat, which is now generally regarded as extinct. A description of the rat was given to officials at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, but they came to the conclusion that it was not a specimen of the native rat. One resident of Onehunga said that the rat was very much like a kiore. He last saw a kiore on Mount Egmont 30 years ago. “My wife has a queer way of getting even with the Telephone Department.” “How’s that?” “She uses my car to knock down their poles.” The annual meeting of the Wairarapa branch of the New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society will be held tonight, at 7.30 o'clock, in the office of Messrs Dunderdale and Gray.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1939, Page 4
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