DISEASED STOCK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 15, 10 September 1912, Page 5

DISEASED STOCK.

A STATEMENT BY MR. D. S MAXWELL.

At last night's meeting of the Stratford liorougn Council, Mr. D. S. Maxwell, who had been petitioning the Council to lay water on to his House, asked leave to make a public statement, with regard to the stock padclock just opposite his place, which was used by the Department for disoased stock. It had been published in the newspapers that tho cattle were left in the paddocks only for a day or so, and then removed. "I would like to say," said Mr. Maxwell, "that this was not so. The cattle were put in there and left for a week or longer. 1 may say that the day after that statement of the Stock Inspector's appeared in the newspapers, there were diseased cattle there in the paddock, and they were there for a week. There was one beast there—and mind you, i know all about cattle —with a cancer on its face that was a horror, and should not have been allowed in the town."

Afterwards Cr. Ward brought up the subject for discussion. Cr. Dingle spoke in no uncertain fashion as to the evils of allowing the cattle 10 remain in tho Borough, and then to be trucked to Patea, in the same trucks which would afterwards he used for purebred or ordinary stock, Tho Councillor considered that there was a very great danger, and expressed the opinion that the Department were not doing all they should in the matter. "When we have diseased cattle," said the speaker, "the Department tells us to take all kinds cf precautions, and yet the Department itsolf acts in this way." Cr Dingle added that he did not think it was necessary that condemned stock should be taken to Patea ; they could be boiled down in Stratford.

After a short discussion, motions were passed bringing the matter under the notice of the Department and of tho railway authorities.