ANTI-HYDATIDS DRUG

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20115, 8 December 1939, Page 3

ANTI-HYDATIDS DRUG

WAR DELAYS SUPPLIES ISSUE TO DOG-OWNERS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Owing to difficulties caused through the war of obtaining supplies of the anti-hydatids drug, arecoline hydrobromide, it was announced in a regulation issued with the Gazette last night that the date for the registration of dogs has been extended by a month to February 1. It is hoped that the local authorities will then have sufficient supplies of the drug to issue to all dog-owners. Tlie Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, explained that under the Dog Registration Act, 1908, existing dog licenses were required to be renewed on January 1, 1940, but registration could not be effected unless the Dogs’ Registration Amendment Act, 1937, was complied with, which imposed on local authorities the obligation to supply to each dogowner at the time of registration one year’s supply of arecoline hydrobromide, costing a small additional fee,

The international situation had made it difficult to obtain supplies of the approved hydatid remedy. Contracts had now been let by the Government for bulk supplies, the first of which would arrive late m December. Unforeseen delays in transit might occur, in which event the local authorities and dog-owners would find it impossible to comply with tire law. “It is proved to be essential,” added Mr. Parry, “that there should be no break in the continuity of the treatment of dogs for hydatids. I appeal to all dog-owners to co-operate with the Government in the efforts made to eradicate the. hydatid disease from this Dominion.”