FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
COST OF OUTBREAK IN ENGLAND BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION-.-COPYRIGIIT. Received 1.35 a.m. t-o-day.' LONDON, Dec. 30. It is. estimated that £27,800 compensation has been incurred during the present foot and mouth epidemic. The slaughterings bring the year’s total up to 101,000.' As the result of further spread in Nottinghamshire, the Ministry has ordered tire destruction of Colonel Rirken’s pedigree herd of Friesians. Guernseys and Shortvorns, which took eleven vears to build up. Special precautions .ore being taken to protect the Prince of Wales’s pedigree stock at Lenton farm, six miles distant. “The Times” points out that though ‘V position is serious ,©nly 64 outbreaks have occurred in Britain as compared with 16,000 on the Continent. “Sydney Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 December 1927, Page 7
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