HARES SMITTEN
BLINDNESS AND DEATH
DISEASE IN THE SOUTH
{By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") j DUNEDIN, July 6. j The South Otago Coursing Club has '•■ lost 16 of its 32 hares within the last week by the depredations of some dis- ■ ease which affects their eyes and causes blindness. On Sunday members of the club who visited Plumpton found no fewer than eight hares diead and another stumbling about in "such a way. that it had to be killed. Some of those dead ■ showed no cause of death but others were found to be suffering from! a complaint of the eyes, the bones in close proximity to the eyes having i rotted away. I Members are at a loss to explain the | matter. The complaint is said to be I something like the facial eczema that has been devastating dairy herds and sheep in the north.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 24
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