STOCK IMPORTATIONS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 10

STOCK IMPORTATIONS

Need for Improving Herds LORD BLEDISLOE’S SPEECH By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, November 6. Tlie embargo on the importation of live stock from Britain into New Zealand was referred to by the GovernorGeneral when speaking at Akaroa today. Lord Bledisloe urged fanners to import blood stock to improve their herds. “There is more likelihood of the people of New Zealand suffering from an outbreak of leprosy than from any disease brought into New Zealand by live stock coming from Great Britain,” said. Lord Bledisloe, when referring to the possibilities of the beef trade in New Zealand. “It is absolutely impossible to get foot-and-mouth disease on any live animal coming into this country after passing through the quarantine station on the Thames. If you are going to develop that good high-class stock which is necessary you must have fresh blood of the right type. If you are going to get it from other countries then it is going to be hard on the commercial farmers, because they cannot afford the cost. “I have no axe to grind, but I hope, in your own interests, that you will get from the Old Country the male stock which is so important for the improvement of your stock, and which other countries with will ch you will have to compete are introducing. Do bring your wise counsels to bear oh this question and realise that the pastoral industry cannot be maintained unless you take the trouble to get fresh stock from the only source which can adequately provide you with it”