TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 304, 22 December 1903, Page 2

TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday.

Mr MacPherson, dairy inspector, declares that the statements at a recent meeting of Christchurch. dairymen to the effect that the Government made a profit out of the dairy cattle condemned and killed was quite incorrect. The Government, he says, has not made a penny that way. With regard to an assertion that two beasts which passed the test were killed and found to be in a terrible condition, he said they had been condemned and had been sent on to Addington to be driven to Belfast, -and they were slaughtered at the same time as other condemned beasts. It was known they were diseased. Many of the statements made at the meeting were wild and unfair to the officers and the Department. All cattle condemned on the strength, of test had been proved to be suffering from tuberculosis. DUNEDIN, Monday. The Dairymen's Association met several members of Parliament to-day to bring under their notice the resolutions passed at the recent meeting, and to secure their co-operation to fix the limit price for diseased cattle destroyed at £ 12, an increase of the age limit to ten years, and that all the benefits derived from the condemned cattle should go to the owner. Also, that owners should be notified of the visit of a veterinary to examine animals. After a general discussion the members expressed the opinion that the dairymen had made out a good case, and were entitled to support. Mr E. G. Allen, however, thought it would be futile to ask the Minister for an increased price for condemned stock, while others thought as prices had gone up so should compensation.