CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914 — Page 460

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*I have myself employed a very large (Clayton)

machine (I think the H.type) for dwellings. All that

is necessary is to see that all cracks, windows &c.,

are pasted down. Round the dwelling should be placed

either wire mesh with watchers and sticks to kill

possible escaping rate in the space enclosed or

corrugated iron may be used..

"My honest opinion of the matter is that,

whilst the arrangement is the best for ships, for

dwellings and trains or rat burrows the apparatus is

not efficient in respect to cost. I have no know-

ledge of the small hand-driven W type recently im-

ported to Ceylon. But from observation of the machine

worked type acting on burrows would be sceptical in

absence of proof".

Extract from a letter from Col.W.G.King, dated October

22nd 1914.

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