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No notices were served under Section 4 of the Act, requiring the
execution of works, in connection with infestations, but four informal
notices, requiring alterations to chicken houses, were served and complied
with.
A test bait was made of 10% of the soil sever 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
the Council's rodent control expenses.
This year, it was necessary to poison 13 and 24 manholes in these
maintenance treatments as compared with 47 and 25 manholes poisoned in
the treatments carried out during the previous year,and 82 manholes in
the only treatment of the year before. These results are gratifying and
it is possible that the hard core which is most difficult to eliminate
has been reached.
No charge is made far the use of the Rodent Operator's services in
treating private domestic premises, provided that the occupiers cooperate
in carrying out their duties under the Act.
The cost of treatments at all other premises is recoverable.
DISINFESTATIONS.
Five infestations of bed bugs have been treated during the year, and
a further fourteen premises were sprayed with a D.D.T. solution, or otherwise
treated, for infestations of beetles, ants, fleas, cockroaches, etc:
twenty-six wasps' nests were destroyed.
PETROLEUM (REGULATION) ACTS. 1928 AND 1936.
There are thirty-eight persons licensed to store petroleum and
petroleum mixtures upon the Register. The Licences are for varying
quantities from 10 gallons to 6,000 gallons. The total quantity of
petroleum spirit and mixtures which may be kept in the various stores is
28,600 gallons and 100 Lbs, Sixty-seven inspections were made, but there
was no serious breach of the Regulations to report.