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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1926, Page 3

Mysterious circumstances surround the loss of a herd of pigs at Onaero, •' North Taranaki, on the property of Mr M. Jonas. Early last week he procured a quantity of buttermilk from the'dairy factory and divided it into two lots, one lot for the pigs on his part of the farm and the other for those on his mother’s' part. He was dismayed when later in the day he found his pigs in a bad way, some indeed being dead. He was not able to arrest the trouble, the consequence being that between 50 and 60 pigs were lost. The Government veterinarian and the inspector of stock were sent for, and tho former, after lan examination, expressed the opinion that arsenic by some means must have got into the buttermilk, for undoubtedly that poison caused the death of the animals, 'fche pigs on Mrs Jonas’s part of the farm suffered no ill-clfeets, so it is presumed that the portion of the buttermilk fed to them wps free from poisonous substance,