SWINE FEVER.
OUTBREAK AT JOHNSONVILLE. PIGS TO BE DESTROYED. RELIEF MEN REFUSE WORK. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. An outbreak of swine fever is reported at Johnsonville, where five farms, cue containing 200 pigs, are affected. The Department of Agriculture intends to kill all the pigs on the affected farms. In the meantime trenches are being dug in preparation for slaughtering the animals. Relief workers of Johnsonville, who, it is understood, are on the standdown week, have refused to dig the trenches at ordinary sustenance rates of pay, and have asked for ordinary labourers’ wages, i3s 4d per day. It is also understood that relief workers from the city have been sent to dig the trenches.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18944, 15 May 1933, Page 8
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116SWINE FEVER. Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18944, 15 May 1933, Page 8
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