SHEEP EXPORTS TO AUSTRALIA
Embargo To Operate z From May 31
(New Zealand Press Association) PALM. NORTH, March 23. The New Zealand sheep industry faces an export income loss of £120,000 by the expected Australian ban on all cud chewing animals on May 31. This figure was quoted by prominent farmers and stock and station agents in Palmerston North today. The ban will seriously affect Manawatu stud stock breeders who are big exporters of Cheviots and Border Leicesters to the Commonwealth. During the past few years about 1000 sheep have been exported from farms in the district by one agency alone. The reason quoted for the intended Australian ban is the rapid spread of the dreaded blue tongue disease in flocks and herds in some overseas countries. This disease is unknown to New Zealand farmers, but the head of the veterinary department of Massey Agricultural College (Mr W. M. Webster) said yesterday that a constant watch is being kept at the Wallaceville research station. Last Tuesday, the first of what has been described as a “rush” shipment of 33 Cheviot sheep from Massey College reached Sydney. The shipment was dispatched to Mr F. Cameron, of Brigendoone, Trangie, New South Wales.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28543, 24 March 1958, Page 15
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