CATTLE IMPORTS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 11

CATTLE IMPORTS

Australia Sees No Reason For An Embargo

BAN LIFTED YEARS AGO

Dr. C. S. M. Hopkirk, officer in charge of the Veterinary Laboratory at Wallaceville, who attended the congress In ilei-bourne of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science and also investigated veterinary organisations .in the Commonwealth, returned to Wellington by the Monowai yesterday. Dr. Hopkirk said that it was indeed an Instruction to a New Zealand veterinarian to see the unconcern of Australians at foot-and-mouth disease. They could not understand the reason for an embargo against British stock, and their own embargo had been lifted some years ago. The authorities hoped that soon the disease would be so well diagnosed by blood tests that export of their cattle to New Zealand would be permitted. Over a thousand attended the congress, and one of the largest sections was that devoted to veterinary science at which the average attendance was over fifty, he said, Melbourne people had been at great pains to give the visitors an enjoyable time socially. The next congress was to be in Auckland in 1937, and it behoved New Zealanders to make preparations to secure a similar success.

Among the veterinary establishments which Dr. Hopkirk visited were the Wait Institute and nutrition division of the A.C.5.1.R., the McMaster Institute, where parasites are studied, and the Stenfleld Laboratory, which is similar in nature to the Wallacevllle Laboratory.

Mr. D. A. Gill, another visitor-to the science congress, who has been absent on leave from the Department of Agriculture while occupying a temporary position with tho Veterinary School in Sydnev, also returned by the Monowai, with Mrs. Gill. He will take up the position of district superintendent of the Wellington province