LIFTING EMBARGO

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1931, Page 7

LIFTING EMBARGO

CATTLE IMPORTS

(/fly Telegraph.—Press Association.) ,' BLENHEIM, 21st May. $n "Express" reporter yesterday Bon ght the opinion of Mr. F. N. Dillon, wlj o has just returnqd to Blenheim after a tlcngthy ■period of residence in Engla* id, on the question of whether the en ibargo, on. the importation of pedigree s fa ock into New Zealand should be lifted. ttiae ' reporter '■explained that local :) banners' organisations .were strongly itpposed to it oii account of the risk of :introducing foot-and-mouth disease.' Mr. Dillon said he would not venture •to advise farmers on the subject, but .'he personally did not think theTe was •much to be feared from lifting the om- , barg'o. He knew that foot-and-mouth ■ disease was a very dire thing, but con- ' t.rol in England was extremely strict, i and very particular precautions were ' taken with it. I Ho did not think the .Dominion could { go on much longer without importing '( fresh blood from England, as it had I never been possible to find a satisfactory substitute for English sires. Pro- ' vided adequate care were observed in j the selection and quarantining of stock / '■■'■ both in England and New Zealand, he J did not believe there.would be_ serious 1 risk of admitting English stock into the ■■'■'' country. • , ' .