Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1884. NEW SHEEP ACT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 138, 21 November 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1884. NEW SHEEP ACT.

As the provisions of the ne^w Sheep Act appear to be rather stringent and it has to be read with the Sheep Act of 1878 without restriction as to the date of its coming into force, we give below a reprint of the operative clauses that our readers may see as early as possible what the effect is likely to be. As far as we can judge a large amount of very disagreeable duty for the inspectors looms m the near future as well as a considerable amount of work and expense for sheep owners. "If any Inspector shall be satisfied that any sheep m a flock are infected with lice, he shall give the owner a written notice to dip such sheep forthwith to the satisfaction of the said Inspector, or any other Inspector ; and if such owner refuses, neglects, or foils to comply with such notice within a period of one month from the giving thereof, he shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty of not less than five pounds nor more than fifty pounds. If after the expiration .of three months from the date of such conviction such sheep shall not be dipped to the satisfaction of any Inspector, such owner shall, upon conviction, be "liable to a further penalty of not less than five pounds; nor more than fifty pounds ; and so on foAevery succeeding period of three months each. Sections thirtythree and forty-fi ire of the said Act shall respectively apply, mutatis mutandis, to all sheep infected with lice after any notice is given to the owner thereof to dip the same, as mentioned m the last-preceding section, and until the Inspector has given such owner a certificate that such sheep, have been properly dipped, and* m respect of every person who drives or depastures, or suffers such sheep to stray as m the aforesaid forty-fifth section mentioned. Section sixty-eight of the said Act is hereby repealed. If any sheep infected with lice shall be m any pound, or m any public yard or yardsj or m any yard or yards at which sheep are offered for sale, the owner of the sheep so infected shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one pound nor more than five pounds.