Pied Pipers of Pentecost
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Pentecost
Rats have become a menace n many parts of the South acific, and they are a par icular problem in the lanmawat area of Pentecost, n the New Hebrides, where Irs. J. Smith (above) and er husband are missionaries nth the Church of Christ, 'he rats will attack anything nd eat anything, but the local ats have become so inbred hat they are now useless at eeping the rats down. When Tr. and Mrs. Smith returned ■> Pentecost in August after lave in Australia they took nth them two cats from ydney, in the hope that they nil put new blood—and new ourage into the Pentecost it population, and thus en ble them to tackle the impaging rats.