CONTROL OF CATTLE TICK.
REGULATIONS PREPARED.
COMPULSORY DIPPING.
] WIBBA. Monday.
[BY IBLECBAPBt.—OWN
The Director-General of Agriculture has advised the Taranaki executive of the Farmers' Union that measures to control the cattle tick have been taken by the Department, and that provision for dipping infested cattle has been made.
The Department recognises that a certain amount of compulsion win be necessary in order to deal effectively with the tick, and regulations have now been drafted. These provide, inter alia, for the control of the movement of cattle from areas where tick exists.
a draft of the regulations is to be submitted to the coming Dominion Conference of the Farmers' Union for approval. The Department has now definitely asserted that the tick is not that known as the Queensland tick. % ■ , :
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New Zealand Herald, Issue 17266, 16 September 1919, Page 8
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