Break Through

Two Gisborne men, Mr Harold Cato and Mr Vaughan Field, are believed to have made an important breakthrough in the agricultural world with their cure for facial eczema. This deadly and dreaded disease takes a severe toll of sheeps' lives when conditions are right for its activities, usually in the autumn.

The cure consists of a compound containing an as yet un-named drug, and results have been startling to say the least. Farmers who were desperate for a cure came from as far afield as Whangarei to see for themselves the results of the cure and take back some of the drug with them.

In the meantime the Department of Agriculture is making arrangements for testing the drug.

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Mr Field (left) and Mr Cato at work making up bottles of the cure.

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Members of the family worked day and night to pack and freight bottles of the drug to worried farmers throughout the country. From left are Tony Field, his sister Mrs Veronica Forbes and Mrs F. A. Jex-Blake.