OUTBREAKS OF BLACKLEG
NOTIFICATION COMPULSORY. . When tliß Hon. W. D. S. MncDonald V- faid on the table of the House'yester---;£lay a paper giving regulations for tlio control of. blackleg, Mr. G. Pearce in- • ~ quired,- what .steps, had been taken by, thb .— Department to .-'eradicate this .; disease, S which., ljad been practically, stamped, out f:'ia TMaiwkirb.ut which, had since broken . ; *>: cut-in some 'other districts. . w The Hon. Wi D, S. MacDcnald replied 'iliat jfen xnie. or two districts in ■'T which blackleg had broken out in the ■ j" last month or tw.p, and notification. had f- been made compulsory. Generally, how™Bver, the disease -had not spread m the t.'last six or nine months. •|'- A sheep weighing 1681b. dressed was dis- ** played in a batcher's shop at Cambridge JT. on Friday. This, says the "New Zealand Herald's" correspondent, is probably a 2' record for Waikato. The live weight of ; .3 Ahe-sheep, was 2711b. • , '
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2774, 18 May 1916, Page 8
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151OUTBREAKS OF BLACKLEG Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2774, 18 May 1916, Page 8
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