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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20492, 10 August 1936, Page 2

“There is a great amount of misunderstanding about foot-and-mouth disease,” said Dr H. E. Annett, at the annual meeting of the New Zealar. I Co-operative Herd-testing Association at Hamilton. Dr Annett said he had studied the question extensively and had thousands of cases under observation while he was in India. It should be realised, he said, that practically the whole of Hie foundation stock upon which New Zealand herds were built had come from England in days ’.'hen the disease was much more prevent than at present. There were still many more cases in other European countries than in England, and it annoyed British farmers to have their country singled out for attention. They had gone to considerable trouble to eliminate the disease, causing farmers in the Dominion to come to the wrong conclusion that the complaint was serious. Actually the number of infected cases which died from disease was very small, and it was rarely that a mature animal succumbed. In England in recent years there had been periods during which the country was entirely free of the complaint for eight or nine months. It had twice been stamped out in Australia, showing that it was not unnossible to control it.