PEDIGREE STOCK BAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 5

PEDIGREE STOCK BAN

i (By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.) LONDON, February 20. Through the farming organisations of New Zealand, the National Farmers' Union and Chamber of Agriculture of Scotland have asked that the present ban on the importation of British pedigree stock into that country should be removed. An appeal previously made through the Minister of Agriculture for New Zealand met with the reply that the objection to the importation of such animals originated mainly with the farmers themselves, their organisations being strenuously opposed to the lifting of the embargo. The risk of foot-and-mouth disease, the union and chamber contended, is obviated by the British policy of slaughtering in all cases of outbreak. In a letter addressed to the secretaries of the New Zealand farmers' federations it has been pointed out if the animals were retained in quarantine for" fourteen days or even twenty-one days prior to shipment, there would be no danger of infection. It is hoped that as a result of these representations a change may be effected in the attitude of the Dominion farmers.