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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13780, 19 June 1908, Page 6

lii connection with the Auckland proposal that there should he a fund opened for the insurance of stock .it salee against Joss by condemnation for disease, it inav be stated that the, system is at work at Addington . saleyards, where both sellcj and buyer pay into the fund. ITiere art X different rates fixed for cows, heifers, and steers. The danger that the fund -would encourage a man to market a lot of diseased cattle and get compensation is overcoma by a simple precaution. An inspector employed in connection with the fund first inspects all the stock submitted, and rejects anything that look?; siwpVous, eo that only apparently found animals can be insured The suspicious animals are branded, and are ottered for sale ,it the butcher's own rifck If insured stock tire condemned at» the abattoir., the condemning officer gives a certificate, ■ with word ' ■ of identification. The system has worked so well that at the last annual meeting ol '" members of the fund a suggestion was' '".?'", made that the premiums should be reduce* .v'P on ' the. ground that tilts claim* had beer • :&', considerably less, than the revenue. Numer- : '.'Si ous interesting incidents arise out of th« -", system. Fur instance, the cattle, of a > grazier found to be vwy badly affected „ ,J-\ may have in be • total! "refused cover by the fund. It is said that all parties at Addirigtoit regard the system favourably. Velvet smoking' jackets in brown mid navy, highly finished; portent fit an.d coin- * :■ ,-■'' fort, 25; each.- and Caiighoy, Ltd. :• : ' ■• "' ; "■"■•■'"■' .'■..; : , '■■ l ly--^--''^^X :^^:': -^