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Two notices were served under Section 4 of the Act, on occupiers of dwelling
houses, requiring the execution of works to fowl houses.
A test bait was made of 10% of the soil sewer manholes in the district, from
the results of which are based the two maintenance treatments of the sewers, required
by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries as one of the conditions under which
the Ministry pay 50% of all rodent control expenses.
This year, it was necessary to poison 47 and 25 manholes in these maintenance
treatments as compared with 83 manholes poisoned in the only treatment carried out
in the previous year.
No charge is made for the use of the Rodent Operator's services in treating
private domestic premises, provided that the occupiers co-operate in carrying out
their duties under the Act.
The cost of treatments at all other premises is recoverable.
PISINFESTATI0 NS.
No infestations of bed bugs have been treated during the year but twenty-two
premises were sprayed with a D.D.T. solution, or otherwise treated, for infestations
of beetles, ants, crickets, etc., and 12 wasp's nests were destroyed.
For economic reasons these reports have been typed on both sides of the paper.
I am,
Yours obediently,
J. Bo WILSON.
Chief Sanitary Inspector.