PARROTS PROHIBITED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20931, 22 January 1930, Page 9

PARROTS PROHIBITED.

IMPORTATION TEMPORARILY [ STOPPED. (Special to Dailt Trycs.) AUCKLAND, January 21. r It came as a shock to Mr R White who arrived on the Ulimaroa this morning, to learn that the importation of parrots into the Dominion has been temporarily prohibited on account of the o'utbreak of a mysterious disease termed psittacosis (parrot fever) in America and Germany, from which one or two deaths have been recorded. Mr White has been trading in parrots from South America and Mexico for the last 21 years, and ~ present voyage he has with him - ISO Mexican green parrots for New Zea-’ Jand, which, according to the Minister of Internal Affairs, will have to be Quarantined. * cn - < , In l , T an ®“ n 7 years’ experience.” said Mr White, I have never seen a parrot contract a disease, and all I know ot the reported outbreak is what X have read recently in the press. The medical men in Sydney did not seem very per- - ■ turbed about the disease, and I sold three parrots t ° Dr Russell .Vones, of Coogee! ' the least ”° * W ° rry aboilt the “ystery in Mr White brought 500 parrots out, leaving most of them in Australian cities.