Live-Stock Embargo

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 45, 16 November 1937, Page 6

Live-Stock Embargo

AGRICOLA.

Sir, — I see that the executive of the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Union has passed a resolution agreeing with the Wairarapa Farmers.' Union that a committee of experts shoald be set up tr. report on the advisability of lifting the embargo on live-stock. Who will the experts be, and what will qualify them for the committee? A lot of faTmers have been Home for • the Coronation and no doubt have enjoyed the hospitality of the British farmers and have been subject to mu'ch pressuro to get the embargo xemoved but that will hardly qualify them for such an important decision which may bring disaster to the pastoral industry. I should also like to point out that there are a large number of fresh uutLireaks of foot-and-mouth disease; in one case the whole yarding of 2000 pigs and 40o cattle were destroyed and thousands of cattle, etc., are going u;>\ in flame and sfiioke in 15 counties in England. All saies are now prohibited in that part of the country, 5000 farma being affected. According to latest advices^ migratory birds aro carrying the dis'ease, so Somes Island would be very little use as a quarantine station. I do not think the majority of the farmers need worry, for in view of the conditions in England it is unlikely that any Government would accept tho tremendous responsibility of lifting the stock embargo at the present time.— Yours. etc..

Waipukurau Nov. 15, 1937.