TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE.
[by telegraph.—press association.] Timartt, Wednesday. A deputation from a meeting of dairymen interviewed the Minister for Agriculture here to-day, to ask that the testing of daily cows for tuberculosis in this district be postponed till Parliament reconsiders the law. Mr. Duncan deprecated any scare, and read a return showing that in Christchurch only 40 out of 440 cows inspected had been slaughtered, and if the work had to be done over again after the experience now gained, not more than half that number would bo condemned. He held out no hope, of the age and value limits being raised. He was asked also that farmers be given whatever money was realised for the carcase, and replied that this was generally a trifle swallowed by expenses. The Minister goes North this evening.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12447, 17 December 1903, Page 5
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