THE RINDERPEST.
SYDNEY. Nov. 29. To prevent the spread of the rinderpest disease stock, a cordon of mounted police is drawn round an area fifteen miles long and ten miles in width, and Hie cattle within this area arc being destroyed. This is the first occasion the disease has broken out in Australia, and it is not yet ascertained how it reached here. Hue them; is that the infection was brought in South African mniz.e, imported by NewSouth Wales, and transmitted to West Australia in maize hags, used to contain bran from New South Males supplied to one of the dairies.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1923, Page 1
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101THE RINDERPEST. Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1923, Page 1
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