ANTHRAX.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 June 1924, Page 4

ANTHRAX.

DANGLE IN WOOL AND HAIE. SHOULD BE DISINFECITED. BY C3ABLB—£BESB ASSOCIATION—COP YBXGET LONDON, June 20. The special correspondent of the Australian Press Association at the Labour conference at Geneva states that the British delegates submitted a resolution to the anthrax committee, recommending that the report of the advisory committee on anthrax be adopted and a draft convention be submitted to the next Labour conference providingjjuit dangerous wool and hair bd disinfected in the • importing couning unless previously disinfected. An Indian resolution urges the committee not to recommend that any action be taken by thy conference. The process now in operation at Liverpool is, it states, effective, but is costly and only capable of application in Liverpool, and with certain classes of material interferes with their use in industry. The Indian, resolution concludes: “The committee considers that there is no prospect of arriving at an ■international agreement on the question.” A review of the situation indicates the possibility of a majority of about four for the Indian resolution. The vote will be taken in the morning. The matter is really one between Britain and India. The Australian delegates are opposing strongly any suggestion of the disinfection of Australian wool. GENEVA COMMITTEE’S DECISIONS. GENEVA, June 27. The Anthrax Committee, by a majority of twelve, adopted a resolution that the committee is not prepared to recommend the conference to take action, and further, it does not consider that there is any prospect of an international agreement. The committee expresses the hone that the present regulations operating in the industrial countries will be examined and, if necessary, modified, in order that the greatest possible protection will be afforded to the transport of industrial workers. Only four supported the British resolution advocating compulsory disinfection .of wool-.—Reuter.