EMBARGO ON LIVE STOCK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 9

EMBARGO ON LIVE STOCK.

NO REMOVAL YET. ' WELLINGTON, Dec. 2. f A definite promise to consult with - breeders' organisations and the Farm- ] ers' Union before any steps were j taken in the direction of removing the restrictions on the importation of live , stock from Great Britain was made by , the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. C. , E. Macmillan) when the Estimates , of the Agricultural Department were before the House of liepresentatives yesterday. The matter was raised by Mr W. J. Poison, who remarked that he took it that the protection of the primary producers was the function of the department. At present, in high places in this country and in other quarters there was an organised move to - have the embargo removed. If this were done there was a grave danger of the introduction of foot-and-mouth disease into New Zealand. Mr Macmillan said Mr Poison could . rest assured that there would be no alteration in the present state of affairs without first taking the representatives of breed societies and the ; Farmers' Union into consultation. ! Mr H. S. S. Kyle said he-knew of no veterinary officer in the department who was opposed to the lifting of the embargo. It was *paradoxical that ; cattle should be allowed to come to New Zealand from England through ' Australia after having been in quar- ' [ antine in Tasmania, when the Domin- , ion did not take cattle from Australia on account of pleural pneumonia. , The Minister said he had no inten- ' tion of lifting the'embargo until there was a general feeling among the ' farmers that it was safe to do so. ]