CATTLE BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 3984, 1 December 1875, Page 3

CATTLE BOARD.

The special meeting of the Cattle Board held to-day was attended by the Superintendent and Messrs Jamas Smith and John M‘Lc;*n he first bnrinoss con-i-iortd was the advisability o' prohibiting theimnoi tation of stock from uro.-e. The Chairman read the following telegrams. From the Hon. Dr Meiiztes, of Mataura “i think that landing in Otago of st ek direcßy imported hoop Great Brit.du should bo prohibited while disease prevail.-, so widely there, Eroin Air Holies;on, uperiurcndenD of Canterbury “ Dur Board have decided to rccom-

mend exclusion of stock for Europe from all ports o. New Zealand ” '• ho l ion M Holmes wrote s' ron ,ly in favor of prohibition of stock bo- hj from Hritain and the Australian Colonies. It w.’S resolved that application bo made to his Excellency i.he Governor to exercise tinpower vested in him under section 2'J, Ciseascd Cattle ct, 1871, and to exclude nil stock from b-ing landed iu New Zealand hum Europe pending the disappearance of the disease now pit vailing there. The Chairman then read a letter from Mr file". -Sir ton, of date Novembe I’O. relating i.o the sheep tx f’alyp o, now on Quoiaritine Island, and the Hoard resoiv.-d that the Chid Lispec'-or hr, n ques e; again to examine the sheep, toge;U<.r with one or more veterinary surgeons, amin th- event of tiro result of sue inspection being that the stork is still hi aithj and exhibits no sympt- in of disease, resolvethat the sheep be liberated at the expiration of six we ks from the date of qua raid ice. A letter was read from ,hj Chief Inspector dr-lit.in.; the boundaries ol quarantine ground at Clydevale station and it was resolved that the s me he proclaimed. It was resolved further thathe Government he recommended to give effect to the Inspector's rw'Hineudatioi iu rc : nrclr-.se of fittings now on Quarantine Island, mid in respect of the erection of a suit aio fen e acioss the Powder Magazine lie serve, Portobello, so as effectually to i.s./latt the stock now in transitu from England, which wid have to be quarantined there on arrival,