ICELANDERS DRIVEN TO EMIGRATION.
For three years the Icelandic sheepbreeders have been suffering from the embargo placed upon tlie importation of sheep into England from Iceland and Canada. Before 1897 some 70,000 sheep were yearly sent from Iceland to northern English ports, and thence found their way to Border fattening lands, and subsequently to the British dinner-table. In 1897, owing to the existence of disease among sheep in Canada, the importation of live animals from Canada and Iceland was forbidden, unless the sheep were tilled within fourteen days of arrival. The Icelandic sheep being thin in his native state, and fat only after a course of British turnips, therefore fell from grace, and for three years the trade with "Great Britain has reached only about one-third of what it was before the prohibition. It is said that the Icelanders aro innocent sufferers, for there was no disease among Icelandic sheep at (he time of the prohibition, but Iceland was made to -suffer for the sins of Canada. Now, seeing no prospect of the prohibition being removed, the Icelanders are seeking fresh pastures in Canada tsclf.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 January 1901, Page 4
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185ICELANDERS DRIVEN TO EMIGRATION. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 January 1901, Page 4
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