EMBARGO ON STOCK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22318, 16 January 1936, Page 16

EMBARGO ON STOCK

LORD BLEDISLOE'S VIEW [from our own correspondent] LONDON. Dec. 21 At tho annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Show, held during the progress of tho Smithfield fat cattle show, Lord Bledisloo again referred to the Dominions' embargo on British blood stock. Lord Bledisloo paid a tribute to Mr. J. J. Cridlan, tho exhibitor of tho supremo champion at the Smithfield show, and said that Mr. Cridlan had not only obtained the championship this year, but he had done it lib fewer than nine times, thereby establishing a record. They congratulated him not only on his success, but on the way he had consistently pointed out to British farmers the type of stock for which tho public made the greatest demand. He emphasised the importance of drawing the attention of the oversea Dominions, particularly New Zealand and Australia, to the desirability of lifting tho embargo on British pedigree stock, which New Zealand had continuously imposed for many years and which Australia had spasmodically imposed when it had been reported that there was an outbreak* of foot-and-mouth disease in this country. Before lie left New Zealand he had an unqualified promise from the leaders of the Coalition Government that the embargo would bo lifted. A Labour Government had now como into office' in New Zealand, and he had reason to believe that that Government would be as sympathetic, possibly more sympathetic, to the claims of British agriculturists, than the late New Zealand Government.