ROOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 647, 13 July 1876, Page 3

ROOT AN D MOUTH DISEASE.

WPn ,— In tlio Legisinttvo As&embVr on tho 21sl It I i.m! i.icntl), on the motion of Sir Donald I ji^cip, it was ordered "That* select Com10 bo »\i\ ointcd to enquire into and report Bn I on :).o rx| rdicncy of prohibiting the imporU' hum < f i itl.e into * ovr Zealand." W Xi ,v 7. *\ )) \ \» tlio onlj Colony of U\p Au«tr.l«M<.n group wliicli pcrraiti the importation o| Ik- «t ck from Kurope, and by fo doing, sliwji ♦ hr> ort» of all Austialia and Tasmania aguinsfc ur ,tuck. fc'.rt'ly N«w Zealand sock owners gor.erally, ta/. iave lutlo idea of the raT»xes which toot aid mouth dii«uae u causing at homo. Per-mit-no to draw attention to the faot pnblUhed in tic "Kcrth British Agricultumt," under date Otli Vobruuy last, that in tho county of Abertl'en alonf, tho lois from foot and mouth diieaif was in 1873, L 603 15j ; in 1874 it hid incwn«eil to Li,9l(i 12d 6d ; and, in 1875 had roacheJ tho alarming extent of £65,423 12a Gd. Bur(lj such facts at thew will rouse New Zo*lan 1 itock owners from thoir lupinoneis, and mdiioi' tbcm to have meeting! in erery di»tnct ai.d to request their reprejenUtivca in tho Legnlatiro Aw«mbly to ■upport an Act to prohibit the importation of itock, and to orerfc the fearful rcourge of diso«sc, whicb, to a Cdlony like New Ze»l»m), meant absolute ruin: Trusting you will do me tho f»Tour of inserting this in your paper. — 1 am, A.c, P. L.