CATTLE DISEASE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11772, 7 March 1924, Page 2

CATTLE DISEASE

PRECAUTIONS INTRODUCTION. As a precaution against the introduction of cattle diseases regulations were gazetted yesterday under the Stock Act requiring that m every case where goods are imported, either directly or indirectly, into New Zealand from Great Britain, Ireland, or any part of the Continent of Europe, or from the States of Queensland or Western Australia in the Commonwealth of Australia, or from the United States of America, and where any hay, straw, or chafl is received with such goods as packing or otherwise, the importer of such goods shall, with as little delay as may be, and in any case within three days of the commencement of the unpacking of such goods, thoroughly destroy all such hay, straw, or cnaff, by burning. An exception is made in the case of snch packing material from Great Britain when the packages are accompanied by a sworn certificate or statutory declaration from the exporter or packer, countersigned ns correct by a responsible officer appointed by the High Commissioner for New Zealand for the purpose, to the effect that the hay, straw, or chafl used for packing had been disinfected prior to use by steam at 185 degrees for ten minutes, or by some other effective method approved by the High Commissioner. j