BREAKING OUT OF PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 80, 15 February 1864, Page 3

BREAKING OUT OF PLEURO-PNEU-MONIA IN AUCKLAND.

We regret having to record that this fearful; disease lias broken out among the cattle in the Southern portion of this province. ! Tho announcement of this fart has caused; ! considerable excitement both amongst producers ! and consumers of cuttle. The New Zealand. Agricultural Society (as may be - seen'by advertisement in another column) impressed with the importance of the matter have called a meeting of the Society, to be held on Tuesday next, at Otahulm, at 3 p.m., to consider the question of tlie importation of diseased cattle into this Province. .Important as the question is to the producer, it becomes even still more so to the consumer of meal. Not only will the price of.-meat be greatly increased, but, unless the greatest eau- | tion is exercised, disease in new and virulent : forms may be expected to follow the eonsuinp- ! tion of partially infected carcases, wlrile in the j case of milch cattle, the disease becomes imI parted to the millc, and hence to the'consumer.'' j A strict and impartial enforcement of the I articles of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1881/' ■ may do much to avert these evils, but-the fact | still remains that the large population of this j Province must be supplied with animal food, I and we earnestly recommend the attention of j importers and graziers to the advice tendered ; them more than once through the ■ columns of | the Press, by Mr. John Grigg, of Otahuhu, ! namely, that they shoifld import not beef, but j mutton, into the Province. In a short time, perhaps, if unhappily this disease should bccoiiio general, the latter meat will be that chief!jused, and unless energetic measures be adopted to keep (lie supply well up to the demand, famine prices may be looked for. The subject is one which the Society will do well to consider attentively in all its bearings, and we doubt not but that the meeting will be fully attended. A proclamation, a copy of which will he found in our advertising columns, lias been issued by the Superintendent, Robert Graham, Esq., declaring all that, portion of the province lying south of a line running west from i the VVhau Bridge to the sea, to be an infected district,;, Nio person will be allowed to drive any cattle, infected or not, along any road or highway in this Southern portion of the province 'without a certificate from one of the Inspectors appointed under tho Act, and such certificate when obtained will remain in force only '21 liours. . * >7 Any person knowingly driving any infected cattle on a road or highway, or allowing any infected cattle to remain upon his premises without giving notice thereof to the Inspector, will be liable to a lino of £'500. ' ' It will be lawful for the Inspectors appointed to enter on the premises of any niaii whose cattle they may suppose to be infected, for,the purpose of inspection. And if they find any rattle infected to cause the same to be destroyed and buried. A public notification appears of the Inspectors appointed under the Act. ' ! .