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FIGHTING ANIMAL DISEASE. STATION AT WALLAGEVILLE. Reference to the progress being made toward the establishment on a proper footing of research into animal disease in the Dominion, was made by Mr A. J. Murdoch, chairman of the Now Zealand Dairy Board, at. the ward conference of the New Zealand Co- i operative Dairy Company to-day. A grant of £15,000 for the erection ; of a research station at W'allaceville had been approved and the erection of the buildings had been commenced, while the board had made the Government an offer of a £i for £2 subsidy up to a certain amount, for investigation, he said. The board had also associated itself with the Government in llnding £l5O, the Government llnding a similar sum. to meet the cost of a report on an investigation into the incidence of mammit'is in the Dominion by an American investigator. The Herd Testing Council was also gathering data to the same end. "Cattle diseases constitute a problem which is rigid on top of us, and which is causing a considerable amount of wastage in the industry,” commented Mr T. C. Brash.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 8
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