OUTBREAK OF SWINE FEVER.
SUSPICIOUS SYMPTOMS AT NAI NAI. I _ (PEXSS ASSOCIATION IXLZ34UI ) WELLINGTON, April 22. Only one farm in the area affected with swine« fever at Johnsonville remained to be dealt with to-day, and the Director-General of Agriculture, Dr. C. J. Reakes, said it was hoped to complete the destruction of all the diseased and contact pigs in that area to-day, or at the latest, to-morrow. Following the discovery of two dead pigs on the foreshore at Point Howard, one of which was discovered to be infected, a pig was seen floating from the Eastbourne ferry steamer It has been secured and is being examined, but a report is not yet .available. Symptoms of a suspicious nature in a pig have been reported from Nai Nai, north of Lower Hutt, but the disease has not been definitely proved to exist there.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 23 May 1933, Page 15
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142OUTBREAK OF SWINE FEVER. Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 23 May 1933, Page 15
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