TUBERCULIN TEST.
MIN ISTKIv'S ST A TEMENT. DUNEDIN, June 8. The opinion that the dairying industry could not stand the complete application of the tuberculin test tor dairying cows at present was expressed by the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. AY. Leo Martin) at the South Island Dairy Association’s conference. The ouestion arose when Air AV. Muir, Tuturau, asked what the Government proposed to do to make the test universal. “The problem is a national one,” Mr T,oo Martin said, “anil much is being done, but, with as high as GO per cent reaction lo the test, the industry cannot afford the wholesale culling and slaughtering that would be nccessa rv. “In the meantime the Health Department considers that pasteurisation of milk is an adequate safeguard. “Both the Denartment of Agriculture and the Health Department are alive to the matter, however, and as soon ns n universal tuberculin test is warranted it will be applied.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 9 June 1939, Page 12
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