CONTROL OF HYDATIDS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28748, 20 November 1958, Page 21

CONTROL OF HYDATIDS

Pioneer Work At Kaikoura

Commenting on the hydatid control scheme in the Bay of Islands county, details of which were published in “The Press’* this week, the superintendent of hydatid control, Mr A. D. M. G. Laing, recalled that as far back as 1955 in the Kaikoura County. Mr E. G. Latter, in conjunction with officers of the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture in that area, had organised a dog supervisor hydatid control scheme. As far as he knew that had been the first scheme attempted on those lines in New Zealand.

Of the Bay of Islands scheme— Mr Laing prefers the word “eradication” rather than ‘‘control”—he said that he considered that the organisation set up by the Bay of Islands county in conjunction with the Bay of Islands Veterinary Service was an excellent one and was working most efficiently. Mr John Stirling, the senior veterinarian of the club, had had a great deal to do with the organisation of the scheme. ‘‘lt is a scheme that could be regarded as a type of organisation to be studied by all county councils and Federated Farmers’ organisations considering a county-wide hydatid eradication scheme,” said "Mr Laing. Mr Laing, who returned to Wellington last evening, said that during his visit to Canterbury he had addressed a meeting called by Federated Farmers and the Ashburton Veterinary Club at Wakanui on the inception of the first organised hydatid eradication scheme in the Ashburton county. The meeting had been attended by the chairman and several members of the Ashburton County Council. “I am hopeful that in a fairly short period the whole of Ashburton county will be organised in farmers’ voluntary hydatid control schemes on the lines of those organised by farmers and county councils in so many other counties in New Zealand,” said Mr Laing.

Pitch Fibre Piping

Pitch fibre piping as a replacement for cast iron piping is meeting with an increasing demand in Britain It is made from wastepaper and manufactured by a subsidiary of the Albert E. Reed group, which has interests in Murupara. It said that since 1954 the firm has produced many millions of feet of piping for sale at home and abroad for use on housing estates, oil refineries, airports, factories and in mining areas. Land drains of this fibre piping have also been most successful. particularly in farming I districts.—London. November 17.