ENGLISH STOCK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 13

ENGLISH STOCK.

SAFE KEEPING SCHEMA SHIPMENT TO DOMINION. CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. A proposal to enable English stud sheep breeders to eend their best blood etock to New Zealand for eafe keeping during the war wa,s set on foot by Mr. R. C. Todhunter at a meeting of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association executive. Mr. Todhunter said other countries had lost their fine stud etock altogether. "Take Spain," he said. "They were famous once for Merinos. And what about Denmark and Holland? Where is all their stock? "It ie going to toe a huge job to reetock the world after the war," Mr. Todhunter continued. He said while the demand now was for quantity first, after the war it would be for quality again. Further, it would benefit New Zealand to graze stock free of charge, keep up or improve the standard of its own stock, and then re.turn .the sheep to ; their owners. Mr. T. A. Stephens eaid the British Government was alive to the danger and was removing etud stock to eafe places. There was the Channel Islands tragedy to serve as a lesson. "It involves the lifting of the embargo," said Mr. E. S. Taylor (president). Mr. Todhunter said that his idea was that the appropriate breed society would look after the stock of each breed. On hie motion it was decided to draft a cablegram and suggest to the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, that he send it to the British Government if he saw fit, the cablegram to contain the conditions suggested.