Wanganui Cattle Board

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 39, 14 September 1889, Page 3

Wanganui Cattle Board

s# : ' * The first meeting of the above was held in Wanganui this week, and the amount of work done was comparitiyely speaking very trifling. Only one resolution was passed,, and that was to the effect that branding should not be made compulsory with long wooled sheep. A discussion then took place on tuberculosis) when the members gave expression to much diversity of opinion on the subject. Mr Poison did not know it existed ; Mr Turner said there were a few cases about ; Mr Campbell had found it was not contagious ; other members said it was both contagious and hereditary ; Mr Livingstone said be killed every beast he found in that state; but Mr Poison did not do that, 0] loU irh he confessed it was a deadly disease. The Board ultimately decided to recommend that when- the Inspector found infected animals in the cattle yards he should have power to impound the animals, call in th* services of a veternafy Eiirgeon,'an<jyaf . riece3sajpy, ; kill ; them.--en deriseid'from Herald »1 ; B©y. Wl^ Tjinsl^y, ; of Palmerstdh, is adretUse^/W pre'«ich& the Primitive Metho<}jftjlChiwch tomorrow momingi