NO DISEASE AMONGST QUARANTINED CATTLE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 23, 22 August 1928, Page 5

NO DISEASE AMONGST QUARANTINED CATTLE

PALMERSTON NORTH * STATEMENT IS DENIED ENTIRELY WITHOUT FOUNDATION. ANIMALS IN GOOD HEALTH. Press Association—Copyright WELLINGTON. This Day. A Press Association message from Palmerston North yesterday credited Mr J. A. Mitchell with telling the Manawatu A. and P. Association that there were at present several head of stock on Some's Island suffering from foot and mouth disease. This, said Dr. Reakes, DirectorGeneral of Agriculture, this morning, in a statement, is entirely without foundation. , | There happen to be cattle from the United States in quarantine on the island at present, but all of them are v in good health and 'have been in good health ever sinc e their arrival. STRONG EXCEPTION. WELLINGTON, This Day. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and, Co. take_ strong exception \to a statement issued from Palmerston North that fopt and mouth disease ;is prevalent Un catle on Some's 1 Island in •Wellington Harbour. X f-They; state that it is a mistake, H and that there isl'no disease' there at all., J j /i They and other firms I have been importing cattle from North America for years and this particular shipment is merely undergoing the usual quarantine previous to landing.