OPENING FOR N.Z. PORK

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 5 July 1926, Page 3

OPENING FOR N.Z. PORK

DISEASE IN DUTCH PIGS.

(From Oar Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, 2nd June,

A definite case of foot-and-mouth disease having been imported by means of shipments of frozen pigs from Holland was revealed in Scotland last week. The Ministry of Agriculture's representatives attach great importance to the discovery, because it probably explains why foot-and-mouth disease, which was fairly rare in Britain before the war, has visited us so frequently since, and has cost the nation anything between £5,000,000 and £10,000,000. " The importance of the discovery (writes the Glasgow representative of the "Daily Telegraph"), lied ,in the fact that this trade in dead pigs from Holland is largely a post-war development, and its advent thus coincides with the period during which this country has been troubled with recurring outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease. I Those traders in Scotland who object to these Dutch pigs being imported assert that tho revelations ought to give an opening for Empire produce against foreign. Canada recently sent this country two shipments of live pigs, and New Zealand has started shipping frozen pigs. As both these Empire sources are free from all suspicion of the disease, it is urged that stepß should be taken 'to safeguard British agriculture against imported disease, and that Empire produce should be encouraged to replace that which at present carries these heavy risks to pur markets." 85, Fleet street.