THE RINDERPEST.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SPREAD. THEORY AS TO ORIGIN. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 29, 19.30 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 29. Mr. Chapman states that every precaution is being taken in West Australia to prevent the spread of the rinderpest. A cordon of mounted police is drawn round an area of fifteen miles long by ten miles in width, and cattlo within that area are being destroyed. Thie is the first occasion the disease has broken out in Australia, and it has tot yet been ascertained how it reached here. One theory is that the Infection was brought in South African maize, which was imported by New South Wales and transmitted to West Australia in maize bags used to contain bran from New South Wales, and supplied to one of the dairies.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1923, Page 5
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132THE RINDERPEST. Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1923, Page 5
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