FIGHTING CATTLE-TICK
STATE DIPS DESIRED (Special to THE SUN.) DAEGAVILLB, Wednesday. That cattle-dips in tick-infested places should be controlled and maintained by the Government was a suggestion made to-day at Aratapu to the Prime Minister. The dip committee asked to be relieved of its financial burdens. It was pointed out that dipping regulations had been devised to combat the spread of the tick and that the dips therefore constituted a national safeguard. It was not fair, then, that the local settlers should be charged with the construction, operation and maintenance costs. So far as the Aratapu committee was concerned it had got into difficulties through the relaxation of the regulations, which now permitted farmers to put their stock into the saleyards without immediate prior dipping. As a consequence few farmers made use of the dip and the revenue was insufficient to meet the interest and sinking fund charges. It mentioned that six of the guarantors had paid off the bank overdraft. The Prime Minister undertook to take the matter up with the Minister of Agriculture.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 12
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