FACIAL ECZEMA
OUTBREAK IN HAWKE'S BAY FLOCK. NO CAUSE FOR UNDUE ALARM. (By Telegraph—Press Asociation.) HASTINGS, March 6. Facial eczema has broken out in a flock of sheep in the Ngatarawa district, Hawke's Bay. but so far its incidence is believed to be isolated. Mr A. D. M. Laing, M.R.C.V.S., Government veterinarian in Hawke’s Bay, stated that while no definite treatment could be made in the meantime, there was no apparent cause for undue alarm. Mr Laing said that in this instance there was approximately 10 acres provisionally diagnosed, subject to laboratory confirmation, from a total of 185 lambs running in a paddock of 30 acres since January. The outbreak was reported on Friday night last, and no further cases had occurred in the flock since. A full examination of the pasture on which the affected lambs were grazing was carried out by Mr J. W. Palmer, instructor in Agriculture in Southern Hawke's Bay. on Saturday last, and yesterday Mr E. Bruce Levy, director of the grasslands division of the plant research station and a member of the facial eczema investigation committee, accompanied by Mr P. Sears, of the grasslands division, visited Hawke’s Bay and went out to Ngatarawa in company with Mr Laing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1940, Page 9
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