SWINE FEVER.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20878, 10 June 1933, Page 12

SWINE FEVER.

A FURTHER OUTBREAK.

(PRESS association TELEGR\M ) WELLINGTON. June 9. The report of an outbreak of swine fever two miles outside the area to which the previous outbreak wag confined has been verified by the Department of Agriculture.

The locality is a mile from Taita Gorge, and 97 pigs are affected. Their slaughter is being carried out.

When a letter from the Unemployment Board, stating that the State Forest Service had a number of trees available for local bodies to have planted by relief workers, was before the meeting of the Heathcote County Council last night, Cr. F. W. Freeman referred to one of the schemes of the Metropolitan Relief Works Committee for the planting of dark faces on the hills with forest trees, and said that the offer of trees, subject to the payment of lifting, packing, and freight charges, presented an opportunity to obtain trees if such a scheme were decided upon. He thought that there was no doubt about the merits of the scheme for climatic and other reasons. Cr. J. F. Scott said that the experience with Victoria Park had been that plantations had been burned out two or three times. It was not possible to provide effective fire breaks on the hills; even if they were five chains wide the nor'-westers were so strong that fire would get over them. The letter was referred to the members for each riding to take what action they thought fit.