BRITISH LIVESTOCK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 14

BRITISH LIVESTOCK

RADIO APPEAL TO EMPIRE LONDON. April 15. In an Empire broadcast yesterday on the British livestock industry. Mr. Ft. \V Haddon. managing editor of The Pannov and Stock-Breeder, made a strong appeal to breeders in the British Empire to purchase and import British livestock. “We claim,” said Mr. Haddon, “that we have the finest breeds of cattle, sheep and pigs in the world. Our breeds have adapted themselves to most conditions in the Empire, or they have been moulded by those conditions into suitability for their environment.

“Of recent years our export trade has suffered severely because of the restrie!ions placed by some of our Dominions on stock exported from England and Wales. There is, in m.v opinion, little iiistifiration for these restrictions, which appear to be imnosed as a safeguard against disease. Let me tell you that; outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in the home country are so rare that we seldom think of the disease. Pedigree breeders in the Mother Country are, of course, vorv anxious to trade freely with the Dominions, especially in view of the lnrce niinntity of livestock products that we import from them.”