STOCK EMBARGO

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4033, 16 September 1933, Page 5

STOCK EMBARGO

F<M)T-ANI)-MOUTH disease

A ITiUFESSOILS OPINION (Per Press Association) Christchurch, Sept. 15 “The tiuici lias surely come when this matter can be looked to with a certain amount of common sense," said Professor It. L. Alexander, when a letter from the (.lore Agricultural and Pastoral Association asking; for support for its protest against the removal of the stock tmbajfgo, was received by the centra I committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The professor asked that bis objection to the letter being, received should be not ed. The British authorities, said Professor Alexander, were alarmed at the attitude taken up by New Zealand, specially as very few other countries now imposed an embargo on Hritisli stock. In any case, the back door was open for foot-and-mouth disease to get into the country, as it could be carried on clothing, or oh a number of things imported from England. A uimnis. the speaker 'said, co)ild not carry the disease unless they bad had it and no animal was allowed out of England if it bad bad even +he remotes! contact with the disease.