GUARDING STUD STOCK

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1940, Page 2

GUARDING STUD STOCK

SHEEP FROM BRITAIN CANTERBURY PROPOSAL A proposal to enable English stud sheep breeders to send their best blood stock to New Zealand for safe keeping during the war was set on foot by Mr. R. C. Todhunter at a meeting of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association executive. Mr. Todhunter said other countries had lost their fine stud stock altogether. "Take Spain," he said. "They | were famous once for Merinos. And what about Denmark and Holland? Where is all their stock? "It is going to be a huge job to rej stock the world after the war," Mr. Todhunter continued. He said while the ;.demand now was for quantity first, after the war it would be for qualit.v again. | Further, it would benefit New Zealand to graze stock free of charge, keep up or improve the standard of its own stock, I and then return the_ sheep to their j owners. Mr. T. A. Stephens said the British i Government was alive to the danger and was removing stud stock to safe places. i There was the Channel Islands tragedy to serve as a lesson. "It involves the lifting of the embargo," said Mr. E. S. Taylor (president). Mr. Todhunter said that his idea was that the I appropriate breed society would look after the stock of each breed. On his motion it was decided to draft a cablegrarn and suggest to the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, that he send it to the British Government if he saw fit, the cablegvam to contain the conditions suggested.