ABOLITION OF STOCK EMBARGO URGED

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 4

ABOLITION OF STOCK EMBARGO URGED

OBSERVATIONS OP SOUTHLAND

BREEDER

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

INVERCARGILL, January 29,

His feelings when he attended the English Royal Show at Bristol last year, and patched buyers from every other part of the world buying the best of Great Britain’s stock, while New Zealand breeders were forced by the livestock embargo to stand aside and, as he said, envy them their opportunities, were described by Mr A. S Holms (Waimahaka), a well-known Hereford cattle and Romney Marsh sheep breeder, in a talk to members of the directorate of the Southland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pa% toral Association to-day. The regular meeting of the directorate had adjourned. and Mr Holms talked informally of experiences on a recent visit to Great Britain and the Continent. ... X, “I did feel resentment that the breeders of the Dominion were blocked from buying at the Royal and other English shows,” said Mr Holms. “Buyers from many other countries were active at Bristol, and representatives of Australian interests were buying extensively. • There is no doubt that Australia is making a strong bid on the London lamb market, and we cannot afford to ignore this challenge. “I found everywhere in England a strong objection to the embargo, and I think it high time that New Zealand removed the cause of thQse_ feelings,” he said. “New Zealand is the only part of the Empire 4 that imposes this embargo, and it is the farthest country from Great .Britain. Experts assured us that it was not necessary, and the Dominion must consider doing away with these restrictions.”