DANGER OF INFECTION

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1935, Page 7

DANGER OF INFECTION

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE COMPLAINT NOT UNDERSTOOD. RETENTION OF EMBARGO URGED. GRAZIER CHANGES HIS OPINION. By Telegraph—Press Association. ’ Invercargill, May 18. In expressing strong opposition to the removal of the embargo on the importation of British live stock, Mr. David Marshall, a former member of the Board of Agriculture, said that Britain had failed to stamp out the disease, which was not yet properly understood. The calamity in England where stock was docile would be worse in New Zealand with range cattle. It was for the stock owner to decide, not the Royal Agricultural Society. He emphasised the danger of infection from imported seed and packing. The recent numerous bad outbreaks in Britain had caused him to change his opinion, which once favoured the lifting of the embargo. Opposition to the lifting of the embargo on the direct importation of livestock from Great Britain is contained in a resolution carried at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday after a lengthy and. spirited discussion in which some members supported the removal of restrictions on importation. A motion that the Government should be asked to remove the embargo was lost by 17 votes to five. A subsequent motion that the association should definitely oppose lifting the “so-called” embargo was carried by a large majority.