CATTLE TICK PEST.

Northern Advocate, 24 July 1923, Page 2

CATTLE TICK PEST.

"EVERY HOPE OF CLEARING COUNTRY."

The necessity for taking steps to prevent cattle tick from, spreading south was stressed at last week's conference of the Council of Agriculture.

Mr R. D. D. McLean (Hawke's Bay) stated that the tick hud worked down into the Bay of Plenty, and was well on its way towards Poverty Bay. It was true that the Department wis taking steps to keep down the trouble, but the utmost vigilance was required.

At the invitation of the president, Colonel Young, Director of the Live Stock Division of the Agricultural Department, detailed the steps which the Department had taken to overcome the tick. He assured the conference that they had every hope of clearing the country of the pest.

Sir Walter Buchanan (Masterton) said the trouble was that fanners, instead of assisting the Department to combat the pest, kept the fact that their flocks were infested to themselves. Thoy should take steps to impress upon the Government the importance of ridding the country of the serious menace of tick. It would be a serious matter if the tick-got a hold in dairying districts.

Mr McLean said thcit it was absolutely essential that information on the subject of tick should be disseminated.

A noticeable decrease in the number of unemployed on the books of the Napier Labour Department is found in the figures supplied for last week (states the "Daily Telegraph"). There are 15 names, compared with 30 last week, and these include six labourers, one farm hand, three cooks, one engineer (second-class ticket), one road contractor, one picture framer, and one hotel worker. There were five new

registrations for "the week

Lost business cares should get me down I spend my "Week-ends" out of toAvn; And pure ozone by bush and sea Means Monday vim and verve to me. A tiny tent, n big cigar A snug deck chair, and there you are. For sudden ehnngo of temperature — Bottle o' Woods' Great Peppermint. Curt-. " 8