FARMERS’ PROTEST
REPLIES FROM MINISTER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) PAHIATUA. March 12.
The secretary of the Pahiatua branch of the Farmers' Union. Mr J. A. Walsh, has received a reply from lhe Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry, to the protest made by the branch against authorities being granted to import the snail known as limnaea stagnalis. 'I have not received any application for permission to import this snail into New Zealand,'' the Minister writes. "It ; s already established in parts of the South Island and also in the Rotorua Acclimatisation District and parts of Taranaki. My colleague, the Minister of Agriculture, has been in touch with me in connection with the snail being the host of the liver-fluke, and instructions have been issued that no liberation of limneaea stagnalis are to be made.”
In reply to a resolution moved by the branch regarding freight charges on imported barley for pork-produc-tion, it was stated that the matter was receiving the consideration of the Minister of Agriculture.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1940, Page 9
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165FARMERS’ PROTEST Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1940, Page 9
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