CONTINENTAL MEAT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5000, 14 July 1926, Page 4

CONTINENTAL MEAT.

PROHIBITION IN ENGLAND.

DANGEROUS SOURCE OF DISEASE.

The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Boa,rd had just received a report from its London manager regarding tha embargo recently announced by the Imperial Government on all fresh meat from the,Continent of EuropeAn announcement by the Ministiy of Agriculture and Fisheries gives particulars relating to the circumstajices in regard to tlto outbreak o foot-and-mouth disease, and gees on

to say:— “These, occurrences have definite y established one of the most dangerous sources of the introduction o foot-and-mouth disease into Giea Britain, and after careful consideration the Government has decided that there is no alternative but to prohibit the ffiiporta,ti'on of carcases from the Continent as the; only means of preventing this risk. An order has accordingly been made by the Minister of Agriculture in pursuance .of his powers under the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, entitled the J 11 1” portation of Carcases (Prohibition) Order of 1926. The order will take immediate effect, but provision is made whereby its provisions do not apply to cargoes shipped, before midnigTit on June 3-4, 1926.” This order prohibits the landing in Great Britain of a carcase or part of a carcase, as defined iii the order, brought 'from any country on the Continent of Europe (other than Ireland, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man). The_ only exceptions from this prohibition .are: (a) Fully cured bacon and ham, lard, or rendered fat, cooked or preserved meats or meat essences; and (b) hides and skins which ha,ve been dried, drysalted, or wet-salted. In the cases of wet-sa.lted hides or skins they must be accompanied by a certificate to the effect that they have been wetsalted 'for a period of 14 days. The term “carcase” for the purposes of .this order means the carcase of any cattle, sheep, pigs, or goats, and includes meat, hides, skins,' hajr, bones, bonemeal, hoofs, hoofmeal, horns, hornmeal, offal, blood, dried blood, and blood meal, or any other part of a carcase separately or otherwise or any portion thereof.