Untitled

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 813, 1 September 1877, Page 2

The members of the Cambridge Farmers Club are summoned tonight for fhe consideration of a matter which cannot but largely affect the interests of a district, m which the breeding of sheep forms one of the principal occupations of so many of our settlers. A special meeting has been mallei for this evening to take immediate steps to prevent the introduction of scab into the district. What the circumstances are, which have led to so hasty a summoning of the Club together with this object, we have not heard, but it is only natural to suppose that the danger is imminent. The very wording of the notice calling the meeting, shows that the disease is not actually existing m the Waikato, and considering the unwearied and lynx-eyed exertions of the Sheep Inspector of the district, we should have been somewhat surprised to have heard that it was so, but there is, nevertheless, grave cause for taking most active measures of prevention if, as may be otherwise conjectured, there are reasons for fearing the introduction of scab into our flocks, and we shall look with some anxiety for the- report of the proceedings which the Club may determine upon. A few issues back we drew attention to, and quoted freely from the Sheep and Cattle Bill, now before the Assembly. This measure deals largely with the question of scab, and m provisions for its detection and eradication, and if the meeting of to-night . proceed no further than the discussion of the clauses of the Bill which refer to this disease, and. frame suggestions and amendments' for ths guidance of Parliament m the matter, while there is yet time to make use of them, it will have done good service;