Disease hits U.K. horses
Wellington reporter New Zealand has suspended the importation of horses from Britain and Ireland after an outbreak of contagious equine metritis in both countries. The disease is a venereal condition. The decision by the Ministry of Agriculture to suspend import permits results from a recommendation from a meeting of veterinarians. horse breeders, and bloodstock agents. Australia has already suspended imports from both Britain and Ireland, and has sent a team of veterinarians there to investigate the disease. The Director of the Ministry’s Animal Health Division (Dr G. H. Adlam) said the suspension of permits would be reassessed in the light of what the Australian team found. An air shipment of cattle and horses due in New Zlaland on September 12 *ould not be affected by the restrictions, he said. Mr N. G. Wigley, proprietor of the Inglewood Stud. Kaiapoi, said last evening that the ban would not apnly to the stud’s new sire. King’s Palace, which would be on the September 12 air-lift.
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