CATTLE TICK PEST.
"EVERY HOPE OF CLEARING COUNTRY."
/ The necessity for taking steps to prevent cattle tick from spreading south was stressed at the conference of the Council of Agriculture at Wellington. Mr. U. D. D. McLean (Hawke's Pay) stated that tho tick bad worked down into the Bay ,of Plenty, and was well on its way tqivards Poverty Bay. It was true that the Department was taking steps to keep down the trouble, but the utmost vigilance was required. At the invitation of the president.. Colonel Young, Director of the Live Stock Division of tho Agricultural Department, detailed the steps which the Department had taken to overcome t hetick. ,He assured the conference that they had a every hope of clearing tin.' country of the pest. Sir Walter Buchanan (Masterton) said tho trouble' was that, farmers, instead of assisting the Department to combat the pest, kept the fact that their flocks were infesed to themselves. They should take steps to impress upon, the Government the importance of ridding the country of the serious menace of tick. Iti would be a serious matter if the tick got a hold in dairying districts. Mr. McLean said that it was absolutely essential that information on the subject of tick should be disseminated.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16186, 24 July 1923, Page 9
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210CATTLE TICK PEST. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16186, 24 July 1923, Page 9
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