Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No.2 . .

1802 - Ship News - Liverpool - March 11 - The " Betty, " Jones, from Bristol for this port, is lost at Penarth. - Cargo saved. - Lancaster Gazette [1344] 20th March 1802.

1883 - W. Clarke Russell wrote:-

. . . and even Penarth is not to be despised, for I find that whilst her total imports and exports were 1,177,000 tons, in 1880 they had risen to 1,695,000, and in 1881 to 1,887,000 tons. "They can't dock with a heasterly gale," said a sailor man to me. Perhaps not, I thought ; but then gales are not always blowing, and when they come they are not invariably from the east. - North-East Ports and Bristol Channel [1345] [499] - published 1883.

1923 - Rat Week - For several years past there has been held in the autumn a “Rat Week,” an annual concerted onslaught against vermin, promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, to whom is delegated the duty of administering the “Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919." The provisions of this Act have previously been described in these columns, but it may be as well briefly to recall them.

The Act imposes penalties on occupiers of premises who fail to take "reasonably practicable" steps to destroy vermin thereon or to prevent their property from becoming infested. Local authorities are empowered to enforce the Act, if necessary, by taking such remedial measures as they may consider desirable and recover the cost from the occupier.