THE DECIDING FACTOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18274, 15 December 1922, Page 9

THE DECIDING FACTOR.

HERD SOCIETIES' ATTITUDE.

SINN FEIN CRIME DISCLOSED

Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. (R«d. 4.5 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 13

An authority on British bloodstock cattle, interviewed on behalf of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association, pointed out that even though the British embargo were removed it would not produce any considerable importations of bloodstock cattle from Australia and New Zealand. There was only likely to he occasional importation from one or two of the best herds in Australia and New Zealand, and these would only be imported with a view to testing the effect of crossings. Apart from tho removal of any official embargo, such importations would entirely depend upon the attitude of bloodstock breeding societies. If the latter refused to admit Australian and New Zealand importations to their herd books it would be useless to send breeding cattle to Britain. The speaker instanced Friesinns recently imported from South Africa. Breeders there imagined that they were going to continue So flood Britain with high-priced Friesinns. but the societies, after completing the importation, specially selected stock required for their specific purpose and refused to recognise any further shipments. The authority incidentally declared that the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Great Britain was due to Irish Sinn Feiners. who deliberately injected infection into cattle, before shipment to England, with the result that when the cattle were marketed the disease spread throughout the country.