A report on rat week in June was presented to the Auckland City Council by the Town Clerk, Mr J. Mailing. and it was suggested that rat week should be made an annual effort. It was stated that the holding of the campaign was justified by the co-operation of all sections of the community. The amount of poison distributed throughout the combined areas of the city and suburban local bodies was equivalent ,to over 430,000 poison baits, and, while ' •> hffnite information was available ’■«r O f rodents caught, ad- — ‘ °re sufficient to indiign was weii worth he wide publ'-’ty
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1939, Page 7
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