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as may be required for observation, rest, treatment or testing be- 

 fore proceeding to their ultimate destination in the Islands. 



Territorial Veterinarian. 

 Approved : 



Honolulu, Sept , 1912. 



President and Executive Officer Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry. 



STATEMENT OF DR. NORGAARD IN RE ILLEGAL IMPORTATION OF DOG 

 BY MAURICE A. BRASCH. 



Pursuant to instructions received from the Attorney General's 

 office as well as from the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, I 

 called, accompanied by the Assistant Territorial Veterinarian, Dr. 

 Case, on Mr. Maurice A. Brasch, at his place of business on Fort 

 street, Flonolulu, this afternoon, September 30th, informing him 

 that I was authorized to receive from him a statement, if he so 

 desired to make one, regarding the landing of a dog from the 

 steamship Ventura arriving at the port of Honolulu this morning 

 at 8 o'clock from San Francisco, the said dog being landed in con- 

 travention of Rule 6 of the Division of x\nimal Industry of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry of the Territory of Hawaii. 

 Mr. Brasch admitted his willingness to make such statement and 

 related that the dog in question had been purchased in England ; 

 had been shipped by him on board the Lusitania, where at least 

 one other dog was shipped, to New York. Between New York 

 and San Francisco the dog had been left in charge of the express- 

 man in the usual manner, the owners wherever convenient taking 

 the dog from the express car for an airing at such places as Chi- 

 cago, Omaha and Ogden. In San Francisco the dog was placed 

 on board the steamship Ventura, and according to Mr. Brasch's 

 statement no information was given him in regard to the regula- 

 tions of this Board prohibiting the admission of dogs to this Ter- 

 ritory unless subject to quarantine. Mr. Brasch's memory was 

 refreshed in regard to a somewhat similar case which occurred 

 prior to his leaving for the United States during the month of 

 May. which he admitted he remembered, but thought that the 

 restrictions then in force had long since been rescinded. When 

 asked if he had noticed any posters in the ticket office of the 

 Oceanic Steamship Company or on board the Ventura pertaining 

 to the quarantine of dogs in these Islands, ]\Ir. Brasch stated that 

 he had neither heard nor seen anything to that effect, nor that any 

 officer or employee on board the A^entura informed him or called 

 his attention to the "fact that his dog would have to go into quaran- 

 tine upon arrival here. When asked how the dog was taken 



