Reports of a mysterious disease among chamois in some of the highcountry runs in North Canterbury are causing concern to farmers in the district (states the "Press"). The reports were mentioned at a meeting of the North Canterbury executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, and it was decided to ask the Department of Agriculture to make public to farmers some particulars of the disease. Mr. W. D. Hall, Hororata, said that many reports of the outbreak were current in his district, and farmers were concerned lest the disease might be one which ' farm livestock could catch. Farmers had a right to know of any such danger : :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1937, Page 8
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