MYSTERIOUS DEATHS
OF POLLED ANGUS CATTLE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WAIPUKURAU, September 10. Two Government veterinarians are at present in Waipukurau investigating the mysterious deaths of 15 cattle, all Polled Angus, which were penned in a holding paddock on the Takapau Road ready to be sold at the weekly stock' sale. The animals were among those in two drafts from separate parts of the district. They became suddenly afflicted, and collapsed. Though some made a recovery after treatment, efforts to save them in most cases were in vain. Messrs E. D. Laing, M.R.C.V.S., and A. M. Brodies, M.R.C.V.S., Government veterenanians, arrived at Waipukurau on Wednesday and spent Thursday and Friday securing samples of the stomach conterfis and organic tissues, which are being dispatched to the Wallaceville laboratory In the meantime it was not possible to say what was die cause of death, said Mr Brodie. The suggestion that poisoning may have been caused through eating hemlock, which grows on the river-bank near the saleyards, has been put forward by a prominent dairy-farmer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1938, Page 3
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