MOUSE PLAGUE
REPRESENTATIONS TO * GOVERNMENT. PROPOSAL TO INTRODUCE VIRUS. Pros* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, May 1. A conference of the Western District’s branches of the Agricultural Bureau resolved to ask the Government, in view of the widespread damage resulting from the mouse plague, to negotiate with the# Pasteur Institute to introduce virus for the spread of disease among mice. Statements have been made showing that mice are still widely ravaging the wheatfields; also that the lost mouse plafbe caused the loss of wheat valued at £1,000,000, besides untold loss on farms and in homes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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