DEATH OF CATTLE
Powder To Be Tested
"The Press" Special Service ROTORUA, May 2. Lands and Survey Department field officers have recovered a large batch of selenium powder which is thought to have killed 323 calves on the Oruanui block, near Taupo. The calves were valued at £6460.
About 500 of them injected with the powder on March 23 have been dying ever since. Calves are usually injected with selenium to keep them in good condition.
Two carcases tested at the Ruakura Animal Research Station showed a selenium content four times greater than it should have been.
Mr A. G. Tinkham, superintendent of land development for the department in Rotorua, said yesterday the whole batch had been withdrawn and sealed for further testing to determine the exact cause of the deaths.
“As yet,” he said, “we do not know definitely what it was.” But the department was quite certain there was now no further danger, he said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30740, 3 May 1965, Page 8
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