ERADICATION OF SCAB.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1954, 26 September 1888, Page 2

ERADICATION OF SCAB.

(per tress association.)

Wellington, September 25. The Chief Inspector of Sheep has received telegrams from the losD3otors at Blenheim and Kalkonr-, intlm'tlng that olean certificates have bean granted to the M< lint Patriarch and Green HJllo. ejieep. All flicks, therefore, m the South Island are now olean j but before scab can be said to have been eradicated, stray sheep have to be dealt with, A gang of men will start m Ootober to Bcour the top hills on Mount Patriarch country for wild oheep and stragglers, this being the only dlstdot m whioh snob, work remains to be done. With regard to the outbreak at Auokland no farther saab has been detected, though constant and far-reaching inspection haß been oarried out. The Miranda flick are now practically clean, but a certificate has not yet been issaod. There is every probability that by shearing time the colony may onoeagajn be declared clean, that la, if wild sheep m the rough oountry haye thon been cbatroyod There Is this advantage over tho position when the oolony was last declared free from icab, that every fl >ck is now on fenced land, aod a much more stringent Act has become Jaw, enabling aoy future outbreak to be prompty and thoroughly Buppressed.