TRADE BARRIER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 3

TRADE BARRIER

BRITISH LIVE STOCK

NE"vV ZEALAND'S ATTITUDE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, February 9.

On several occasions lately agricultural correspondents have made a point of mentioning the fact that New Zealand refuses to take livestock from this country. "The Times" and the "Field" both refer to this embargo, though the hand that wrote both paragraphs appears to be the same.

"Canada's recognition of the quarantine station at the London Docks is a cause for satisfaction among breeders of pedigree stock," says "The Times" writer. "Hitherto Canada has had, an embargo on our stock unless they were shipped at a time wheu the country had been free from foot-and-mouth disease for at least sixty days. • Now the Canadian Government is prepared to issue permits for the importation into Canada of pedigree stock provided the animals are accompanied by the Ministry of Agriculture's certificate to the effect that they have been detained in the London quarantine station for a period of fourteen days before embarkation. Animals so imported will be quarantined for a further fourteen days on arrival in Canada. This arrangement leaves stock breeders free to ship stock from other ports when the country has a clean bill of health for sixty days.

"New Zealand is now the only Dominion which declines to accept livestock direct from the London quarantine station. Stock can, however, bo shipped first to an Australian port, and, after a period of quarantine there, be transported to New Zealand. In view of the fact that no case of foot-and-mouth diseaso has ever been found in an animal which has passed through the London quarantine station, breeders hope that New Zealand willl soon come into line with the other Dominions."

Canada's action is also described by the "Field." The writer concludes: "The new arrangement may be regarded as an act of reciprocity in consideration for the lifting of our embargo on breeding stock from Canada. Unfortunately, New Zealand'-still refuses to recognise the London quarantine station." \ Another phase of tho N subject is touched on in a letter to the "Field" by Mr. Tennyson Fawkes, of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, who says that the present-day excessive shipping charges are strangling oversea livestock exportatinns.