TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE
FARMERS OPPOSE TESTS
VETERINARIANS NOT ALLOWED TO WORK (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 9. Veterinary surgeons of the Department of Agriculture were refused permission by four North Shore dairy farmers today to test their herds for tuberculosis. This is the latest development in a campaign to secure a block system of testing, rather than random»selection of herds, and higher compensation for cows condemned.
Today Mr C.'M. Becroft, president of the North Shore Milk Producers’ Association, said: “We will go on resisting until we get block testing, rather than indiscriminate selection of herds, and fairer compensation.” His company last week issued the boycott instructions to its 80 farmer members. The farmers'' claim for higher compensation for lost animals might be taken to Court, Mr Becroft said. Farmers, he said, could not believe that the attempt by the department to test cows today was a genuine bid to introduce block testing. “We are standing together as a grpup,” he said. “We are not flouting the law.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27193, 10 November 1953, Page 10
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