STOCK FROM BRITAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21560, 3 August 1933, Page 10

STOCK FROM BRITAIN

CRITICISM OF EMBARGO LORD BLEDISLOE'S VIEWS ■ \ - v DOMINION'S OPPORTUNITIES '• V [BY TELECHAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] HASTINGS. Wednesday "New Zealand is the only country in the world that maintains an embargo against the importation of bloodstock from the United Kingdom." said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, in an address to a gathering of farmers at Hastings this afternoon. "In the meantime countries, such as Australia, where no embargo is enforced." he continued, "are buying the best British stud stock, improving their herds and beating us for our markets." His Excellency elaborated the following points:—The New Zealand farmer looks upon the pig as a garbage-eating animal, whereas farmers in all other countries it and diet it with respect for its market-winning potentialities. New Zealanders breed the wrong sort of pig and have no regard for the taste of the British housewife. "We look upon foot and mouth disease as though it were some dire affliction of stock, whereas it is only a sort of cold and easily curable," said His Excellency. "We have great opportunities to establish a profitable export trade in chilled beef, but we are breeding entirely the wrong sort of cattle. New Zealand is potentially the greatest agricultural and pastoral country in the world but does not realise it. The quota dispute will not matter eventually for England even n6w cannot produce even half the primary products sho needs."