BUSH SICKNESS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143839, 13 July 1912, Page 3

BUSH SICKNESS.

VALUABLE INVESTIGATIONS. Per Press Association. ■ ‘M i WELLINGTON, July 13. " For more than a year tho department of Agriculture has been engaged t; ':i in experiments to discover the cause of hush sickness, a disease affecting tij cattlo in certain districts of tho norths <:,??! ern portion of the North Island. The - first portion of the investigations has y;:: been of such a nature as to induce ajj"';. belief that the cause of the malady has been ascertained, and in order to allow further practical exxjeriments Cabinet is considering a proposal to acquire an .N area of 300 acres at"Mamaku, twelve ? miles from Rotorua, in tho centre of-v? tho affected district. ;