IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM TASMANIA.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XVIII, Issue 4, 21 April 1919, Page 253

IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM TASMANIA.

The regulations under the Stock Act prohibiting the importation into New Zealand of cattle, except from the United Kingdom and Canada, have been modified by an Order in Council gazetted on 27th March, permitting such importation from Tasmania, subject to the following special conditions : The consent of the Minister must first be obtained for the introduction of the animals. The cattle on arrival in the Dominion must undergo quarantine for forty days. Every shipment must be accompanied by a statutory declaration made by the shipper setting forth the kind, number, sex, and brands or marks, and declaring that all' such cattle have been in the State of Tasmania from birth ; that they are at the time of shipment, and have been during the preceding six months, free from all infectious and contagious diseases ; and that they have not during the six months immediately preceding shipment been in direct or indirect contact with any stock infected with any such disease. On every such declaration is to be inscribed a certificate, signed by a Government veterinarian, certifying that he has, within, the thirty days immediately preceding the date of shipment to New Zealand, examined and tested with the tuberculin test such cattle, and has found them free from infectious and contagious diseases. Particulars with respect to the test, showing dosages and temperature records, must be supplied with the certificate.