LIVE STOCK EMBARGO

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 2 November 1934, Page 8

LIVE STOCK EMBARGO

REMOVAL RECOMMENDED. FAVOURABLE REPORT BY COMMITTEE. (Bv Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 1. The Agricultural and Pastoral Committee of the House of Representatives has reported favourably on the petition of Sir William Perry and others asking that the embargo against live stock coming direct from Britain to New Zealand be lifted. The committee considered this could be recommended in view of the stringent regulations in operation both in Britain and New Zealand and the evidence submitted to them. Th/ 3 report, which at an earlier stage of the session would have produced a long discussion, was quickly adopted, the only speaker being Mr H. S. S. Kyle, chairman of the committee, who said those opposed to the petition had been given their opportunity of tendering evidence. It was fortunate that Sir Arnold Thieler, the eminent veterinarian and one of the world’s leading authorities on foot and,mouth disease was in New Zealand and able to give evidence, and he, with practically all the veterinarians of the Dominion, considered there was no danger cf animals bringing the disease to New Zealand as carriers owing to the stamping out methods employed m Britain, the disease could be detected in the incipient stage, and his own opinion was that the dangers to New Zealand live stock were greater under the pr~sent system of bringing them m via Australia.