Rats! - At A Cent A Head

I" rom Our Own Correspondent.

Apia, Aug. 14.

The Samoan-English monthly O le 1 Fa'atonu, published by the Naval Ad ministration in American Samoa reports that during one month recently, 15,000 rats were killed by native children. The Government pays one cent a head for these pests.

The Administration points out the enor mous damage rats are causing to food supplies and crops and admoijishes Sam oans to wage a war of destruction with out waiting for officials to do so. Rat traps are offered by the Government at a

very cheap rate, so that at a small ex pense villages can rid themselves of the dangerous nuisance.

In Western Samoa, rats are causing a great deal of damage on plantations, especially cocoa estates.