PIGS DESTROYED

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1933, Page 5

PIGS DESTROYED

AT JOHN^DKVILLE

CHECKING OUTBREAK OF FEVER,

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WELLINGTON, May 19. A number of pigs 1 ill the Johiisonville district. havo;'been destroyed or are awaiting destruction} through infection with, .swine 'fever, or through, contact with affected :.animals; The number ,so far totals. 1147 pig*. Six hundred of. the pigs have already. been destroyed.

The Department, iha s issued <tn appeal to all farmers 'immediately to notify the appearance qf any disease in their stocks.', ,'x, I

Tl% discovery , of. two .dead pigs was made on - the -foreshore Howard , this momjiig. " Thjs ‘ gives ' ground for the fear that; the carcases were brought doAvh.the Hntij.:River, thus indicating the possibility of part of the Butt. Valley being, tyo-., A/ter a complete', investigation of Hutt Waßey a.nd:;Makara, , jjiawever, the Department' discovered' no'- the disease. . > 1

The 'Department. >o fAgriulture’s Veterinary. Laboratory -at • Wallaeeville has been '.the activity 'during the* past two ; >eeM. "■fftf&SFthe' putbvfialtf^'fever* - '' • : ;bad 'bcen witb , % of v gwihe' fever 'sot dtp vin ; ttiv expert- 5 mental animal-’. 1 jUded—asauiplejs .tare [ ;; taken from pigs in any form where the slightest suspicion of! the presence of the disease oqcurs.'Thesp afe' used to • inoculate experimental , animals, thus revealing If ■ ij present; ,No trouble lias been experienced with the. 46, relief workers, (who arc engaged digging the ‘trehchog fo r the burial of tile pigs. -