LIVE STOCK EMBARGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 285, 29 August 1935, Page 14

LIVE STOCK EMBARGO

No Sign of Early

Removal

QUESTION IN ABEYANCE

There does not appear to be any immediate prospect of the removal of the embargo against the importation of British live stock. The Government, it is understood, is reluctant to make any change in the present arrangement without a fair measure of support from farmers’ and breeders’ organisations. Early in the year the Department of Agriculture put forward an alternative plan fog direct importation. This involved the cqreful supervision of all stock brought from Britain, both in transit and in quarantine off the New Zealand coast, and provided strict regulations in the purchase of stock in disease-free areas. Details of the suggested scheme were forwarded to interested organisations and persons throughout the Dominion, and the department expected to hear favourable comment on a plan which it eonsidere provided adequate safeguards against the introduction of sheep and cattle disease, and which avoided the necessity of landing stock in Canada or Australia, the benefits of which have been widely challenged.

Approval of the plan, however, was so half-hearted that the Government thought it better to leate the whole matter in abeyance. That is the present position.