Compensation For TB Tests Increased

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30856, 15 September 1965, Page 3

Compensation For TB Tests Increased

(New Zealand Press Association)

HAMILTON, September 14.

The Dairy Board has announced a maximum price of £4O for 1965 compensation payments under the tuberculosis testing scheme.

This is an increase of £7 over last year’s maximum price of £33.

Introduced last year, a differential grant is paid on TB losses in excess of 5 per cent at third herd test and over 2 per cent at fourth and subsequent herd tests.

it is said that this has gone a long way toward meeting

the difference between total return for tuberculosis reactors and cost of replacements.

Mr A. G. Taylor, district executive officer at the Hamilton office of the Department of Agriculture, said all herd owners eligible for the grant this year had had application forms posted to them. Claims on hand were being processed immediately. Mr Taylor explained that the amount of the grant was

calculated on the total return (carcase value plus Government compensation) for slaughtered reactors and the actual cost of replacements with a maximum of £4O a head. “Herd owners who maintain their milking herd without the purchase of replacements qualify for the grant,’’ said Mr Taylor. Other qualifying animals are:—

Reactors to a test on suspicion carried out between successive whole herd test. Clinicals condemned within six months of passing a tuberculosis test at a whole herd test. Culls found to be tubercular at slaughter within six months of passing a tuberculosis test at a whole herd test. Reactors which die before slaughter.