ANTHRAX

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19049, 28 June 1924, Page 5

ANTHRAX

DISCUSSION AT GENEVA CONFERENCE.

Received June 27, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, June 26. The Australian Press Association’s special correspondent at Geneva states: The British delegates submitted a resolution to the Anthrax Committee, recommending that the report of the Advisory Committee on Anthrax be adopted, and a draft convention be submitted to the next Labour Conference, providing that dangerous wool and hair be disinfected in the importing country, unless previously disinfected. An Indian resolution urges the committee not to recommend that any action be taken by the conference. 2k process now in operation at Liverpool is, it states, effective, but costly, and only capable of application in Liverpool, and, with certain classes of material, interferes with their use in the industry. The Indian resolution concludes: The committee considers there is no prospect of arriving at an international agreement on the question. A review of the situation indicated the possibility of a majority of about four for the Indian resolution. A vote will be taken in the morning. The matter is really one between Britain and India.

Australian delegates are opposing strongly any suggestion of disinfection of Australian wool.