RINDERPEST.
OUTBREAK IN AUSTRALIA.
MELBOURNE, Thursday
, Mr. Austin Chapman, Minister for Trade and Customs, states every precaution is being taken in West Australia to prevent the spread of rinderpest. A cordon of mounted police has been, drawn round an area 15 miles long and 10 miles wide, and the cattle within the area are being destroyed. This is the first occasion in which the disease has broken out in Australia, and it has not yet been ascertained how it reached here. One theory 's that the infection was brought in South African maize imported by New South Wales and transmitted to West Australia in maize bags used to contain bran from New South Wales supplied to one of the dairies. —Press Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15049, 30 November 1923, Page 5
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