DISEASES IN CATTLE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19066, 11 January 1924, Page 4

DISEASES IN CATTLE.

IMPORTATION OF LIVE STOCK. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. (P*B United Press Absooiatioh.) WELLINGTON, January 10. This week’s Gazette contains two Orders-in-Council dealing with the importation of live stock from Australia and from the United Kingdom respectively. The latest official information from. Australia is satisfactory, showing that the drastic steps taken to deal with the outbreak of rinderpest in W r estern Australia have so far had good results, as no further oases have occurred since December 18, while all the other Australian States have taken the most rigid precautions to guard against the risk of the infection reaching them. The making of the present Order-in-Council is not the result of any doubt as to the thoroughness of the measures which are being taken in Australia, but is only done .ns a matter of special precaution. Under the previous conditions the importation of all live stock and fodder from Western Australia and Queensland, and of cattle and fodder from the other Australian States, was prohibited. The new' Order-in-Council makes it now necessary for , the prior consent of the Minister to be given before sheep and pigs can be imported from New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. As regards the United Kingdom, the Order-in-Council prohibits the importation of all stock except horses and fodder. As a matter of fact, by arrangements with the High Commissioner, all the shipments of stock and fodder from the United Kingdom have been stopped for some considerable time post, consequent upon the serious spread of foot-and-mouth disease. The present Order-in-Council is made in order to place the matter upon an exact footing, seeing that there appears to be reason to fear that some time will elapse before shipments can be resumed with safety.