HONOLULU CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1924, Page 5

HONOLULU CONFERENCE.

IMPORTANT MATTERS DISCUSSED. QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Assocla’ion. Auckland, Sept. 15. Speaking of a recent conference at Honolulu, one of the New Zealand representatives. Mr. G. M. Thomson, who returned by the Makura, said he thought the conference had been successful and useful. Among the subjects discussed of great importance to this country was the preservation of whales, seals and other fur-bearing animals in the Pacific. This he thought would be arranged eventually by international agreement. A closer study of ocean currents as they affected the distribution of food fish was likely to eventuate as the result of a discussion, and would be of Use to New Zealand. The quarantine section discussed parasites to cope with insect pests, but It seemed to him that New Zealand was regarded as fairly clear so far as fruit diseases were concerned, and that there was plenty of scope in New Zealand for apples. It was remarked that the supervision of exported apples at Auckland was scarcely severe enough. If the fruit was properly examined at this end there was room for «. much bigger trade in apples from New Zealand than at present.

He had definite information that the foot and mouth disease in California originated in garbage from an army transport being fed to pigs. The Hawaiian authorities had decided to preserve a strict quarantine for a further period.