Heavy Mortality From Swine Fever
DEFINITE CASES IN HUTT VALLEY, WELLINGTON, Last Night. ~ Suspicions of swine fever on a farm at Nai Nai, Lower Hutt, have • been; definitely confirmed and all pigs on this farm, numbering 130, will be destroyed. The work of digging trenches for the disposal of the bodies will be set in hand immediately, local relief workers being employed. The total number of animals condemned in the Johnsonville district is 1606 and the last of the bodies is expected to be disposed'of late to-mor-row.
The carcase of a third pig found in the harbour has been examined and infection practically established. TheAgriculture Department’s officers haver not yet been able to trace the farnr owning the pigs found in the harbour.; ■<
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1933, Page 6
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