LONGWOOL BREEDS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19523, 24 June 1933, Page 15

LONGWOOL BREEDS

AFFAIRS IN AUSTRALIA. At a conference of the Australian Longwool Sheep Breeders’ Association, at Wagga, last month, there was a long discussion regarding the compulsory tattooing of registered sheep It was decided to retain the present practice, in keeping with the Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders’ Association of New Zealand. It was decided that any purchaser of pure-bred sheep will have the right to insist upon tattooing. Several new flocks of British sheep were admitted to the flock books. The meeting was followed by a dinner, at which Mr. W. R. Glasson, of Molong, presided. He gave a resume of important improvements effected by the executive, and said the executive had approached the Minister with a request for legislation to prevent the sale of rams from unregistered mothers, and also for the imposition of an import duty on rams brought into Australia. The Minister had declined both requests. Mr. Glasson said the trouble to-day was the lack of ability to absord all they produced. Members should vigorously reduce their output. It was going to be a case of the survival of the fittest, and men who produced the best stock would have the best chance of surviving.