STOCK DISEASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8203, 28 July 1915, Page 2

STOCK DISEASE.

BOARD I. f AGRICULTURE DECISION.

(Per Press Association)

WELLINGTON, July Tt

The New Zealand Board of Agriculture has considered a request by the British Board ■of Agriculture that -the Dominion's restrictions on the introduction of live stock owing to outbreaks of foot .and mouth disease in Great Britain should be,modified, and it was decided to recommend that the High Commissioner should be authoz-ised to make inquiries in Britain, as to whether it was advisable to relax our regulations in certain directions, and that inquiries should be made ns to the procedure adopted in Australia.

It was.resolved to inform the New i Zealand Sheepbreeders! Association that-the Board had. no-..statutory power <

to prevent the export of inferior purebred sheep to Australia, mid that the Association should bo a.°kod; to state the best method of dealing ivith the matter.

It was reported that owinj: to the high price of basic slag, experiments arc to be carried out to determine the most eifoctive substitute, and thnt endeavours are being made to obtain suitable experimental areas in different parts of the Dominion.