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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 15

. The Shropshire Sheep Breeders' Association and Flock Book Society (Englahd) have, according to I'ho' "Live Stock Journal" of February 2s, passed a resolution impressing upon the President .of the Board of Agriculture tlitf desirability of approaching ,tho various foreign and colonial Governments with a view to a modification of the existing impoit regulations, so as to allow and pigs to be exported from the United Kingdom, provided that they' liave come from a clean zone and not within a fadius of fifteen to thirty miles of any place where foot-and-mouth'disease has existed for two months. In this,issue will be seen, a pcture of the s.s. Takapuna entering Gisborne har-. bour. Almost at the exact spot where the vessel was photographed . there was a sanr ba. - in the early days" of settlement across which it was " possible to walk at low tide. It has now been dredged to a ' depth of twenty feet.