LIVESTOCK IMPORTS
COMMENT IN BRITAIN. An agricultural correspondent of the “Times,” London, made reference again last month to New Zealand’s decision regarding the importation of pedigree stock from the United Kingdom. Headers were reminded of the attention directed by Lord Bledisloe to the farmers, who were tolcl by thje Governor-General of the handicap under which they labour. A small concession, said the writer, had been made by a reduction from six to three months in the period during which stock from Britain must be kept in Canada, the United States, or Australia before shipment to NewZealand, but the procedure involved great expense and. thiei position was l still far from satisfactory. AY lien Mrj Forbes was in England for the World] Economic Conference he met- repre-i sentatives of the pedigree stock breed-1 ing industry, and it was hoped that the whole question of direct shipment would be reviewed on his return to New Zealand.
“The Association of Veterinary Officer® of New Zealand recently passed unanimously a resolution advocating the admission of British pedigree stock in view of the efficiency of the London quarantine station, and the complete safeguards afforded against the possible introduction of foot-and-mouth disease into the Dominion,” the writer proceeded. “But the New. Zealand Farmers’ Union has again urged the Government on no account to remove or modify the existing importation of pedigree stock from the United Kingdom. “The dread of foot-and-mouth disease is understandable, hut the farmers of New Zealand must not imagine that this country is in the same category as the Continental countries, where the disease is almost- epidemic. The United Kingdom is kept free from foot-and-mouth disease at all costs, and with the additional safeguard offered bv the riuarantinie station at the London Docks, there' docs not appear to be any good reason why New Zealand alone among Empire countries, should continue to refuse entry to our livestock.”
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 7
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