FACIAL ECZEMA.
NO DANGER IN CANTERBURY. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. An assurance that the chances of facial eczema assuming serious proportions in Canterbury were very remote was received Irom. Mr W. D. Blair (district superintendenet of the live stock division of the Department of Agriculture in Christchurch), at a meeting- of the executive of the North Canterbury District of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union yesterday. Mr Blair said it had been established that the condition was undoubtedly due to dietetic causes, and repeated experiments had failed entirely to show that the trouble was in any degree infectious. * Tire difference in feed and climatic conditions in Canterbury as compared with the affected areas in the north made the danger of a serious epidemic very remote. For those reasons, and, further, as the period has now passed when an outbreak would be likely to occur, an embargo on the importation of stock from the North Isi and was unnecessary. "With the present system of shipping stock from the North Island a permit would not bo issued for sheep or cattle with facial eczema.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 185, 19 May 1938, Page 6
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