INSPECTION OF MEAT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 11

INSPECTION OF MEAT

INTERNATIONAL QUESTION

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, 7th December

Licut.-Culonel H. A. Keid, who represents New Zealand on tho International Committee on Epizootic Diseases, has been invited by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations -to attcTid meetings of the Sub-Committee of Experts on veterinary questions at which questions regarding tho inspection of meat for exportation will bo discussed. Colonel Koid has accepted the appointment. The Sub-Committee of Experts is a branch of the Economic Committee of the League, set up as a result of a recommendation of the Conference for the Abolition of Import and Export Prohibitions and Restrictions. The terms of reference of the Sub-Committee are to consider what guarantees might bo given by countries that oxport livestock and what facilities might bo granted by importing countries on tho basis of these guarantees, and to dotermino in general -.Mie best methods J'or applying veterinary supervision, taking into account the economic interests of the oxporting countries and without prejudice to the interests of countries desiring to take precautions against diseases of animals.