LICENSING STALLIONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 895, 15 August 1910, Page 10

LICENSING STALLIONS.

v SOpraMtrSTEAMA'S position; ■ the Eoyal ;■-■ Agricultural'; Society-> waited < -'on ■:' tho ■"Coniinissioner: 'of '/-. Crown- ■ Lands forSouth' Australia ; recently, Sir Lancelot ■-. Stirling presented -a,- motion carried -by > . ihe.-society urging. that -the, regulations • providing for -examination should , not ■■'■' be repealed .unless, the.Government was. prepared to a Bill' providing :. ; for. the;.gOTeral'Ucensing/of, horses'ply-' ing for'hirer ?He:emphasised. tHe-possi-: : ; bilrties .of / f the',fhbrse-breeding' industry' ; if proper protection was granted. TJp to the in'-Victoria: 2664 stallions had been examined, 1973 certificated, V and^69l ; rejected; In New South "Wales, . where the examination had begun more recently, ;the. figures were .respectively 659,..5 ip, and 149. The rejects in-each ':■ instance;had ! .amounted to a .quarter.' -.- Since-September,oflast year.3oßsstalr lions;had been examined in South.Aus- .'■; tralia 1 ,-233-certificated, and 85 (or.-ohe- • third) vrejected.'' .'■. That comparatively. : :-highe'r, ; percentage. was largely accounted' ■ior- by the.,number of rejected stallions' .. thathad come into; the State .from Victoria, It waß important, .too; that . they'; should disq-oalify mongrels of bad ' shape: or'make.'"ijrho -arguments ad- - -. vanced';; by - a .norftiteri", deputation "for; .':■"tihe.repeal of.the regulations had-been '■ illogical,-and,- if accepted, would bo inimical vto the best interests of the ' industry., .. TJnso'uhd. stallions" bred in the State-.could,: under that suggested . • policy,':-go forth to•ithe-doteribration.- of' their'stock. The present system iwould, : . tqVa'j;certain extent, work but. its. own .■/-■•: ■ :.'