MEAT AND DAIRY BOARDS

Northern Advocate, 12 October 1934, Page 5

MEAT AND DAIRY BOARDS

CLOSER LIAISON URGED;

EMBARGO ON STOCK. ' * (Per Press Association.—Copyright;! . WELLINGTON, This Day. On the motion of the. president,- Mr W. j. Poison, • M.P., the Dominion Executive of the Farmers’. Union . re- I solved that, in order to create closer ' • liaison between ,the meat .and dairy industries",'and toenable mutual problems to, be. jointly considered,...it,be a , recommendation to ' the’, Government that one' j of ; the, Government nominated members of the . Meat .Bqard U should be a dairy representative and jl l that one of. the Government .nominated members of the Dairy ' Board i should.be a representative of ,the meat , -i industry. Complaint-at Ministers of the'Grown avoiding definite replies by promising jv “careful consideration” of - remits* sent 0;? to them was .voiced, and it was decid- * 4 ed, when unsatisfactory- replies were ’? received, to press for definite state- v nients- in ' time for each - \ the executive. , ‘> f A motion urging that, in the event of the embargo on stock fromEnglahd ■} being lifted, .strict import restrictions! \ should be .imposed and that all.. precautions. be taken to deal with_packihg ; and other materials from 'countries - affected with foot-and-mouth disease, was carried. Mr Poison quoted' a ? statement by Sir. Arnold Theller, an eminent veterinarian, that it was safe' to import cattle from England, in view of the inspection and quarantine there - before shipment, and" that it was surprising that infection had not been' in- . troduced by packing from other countries. Mr Poison said the ; Farmers’ Union was the only organisation. standing in the way of spme plan to import " animals direct from Great - Britain,, and it was. time, to consider J* whether they, were. ..barking up the, : wrong tree.' ‘ - —..-a ....