STUD MERINO EWES
PROTEST AGAINST TREATMENT BY STOCK DEPARTMENT. By Telegram.—Press Association. Blenheim. June 8. The Marlborough A. and P. Association to-day resolved to send a strong protest to the Stock Department against the treatment accorded a recent consignment of stud Merino ewes imported from South Australia by Marlborough breeders. Mr. E. A. Weld, a prominent Marlborough breeder, placed facts before the association which showed that the sheep had been seriously affected through immersion in strong harsh sheep dip on arrival at Dunedin. Individual sheep of the consignment 'Showed traces of maggot fly and it was contended that they should have been hand treated with weak fluid dip. As they were fully fleeced, the effect of the 'immersion was disastrous and the sheep arrived in Marlborough in a deplorable condition. One died en route, and others will be. totally unfit for exhibition purposes this year.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 226, 12 June 1923, Page 8
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