1922.] 



Exportation of Horses. 



of claims made before the 18th of July last which was fixed as 

 the final date for receiving applications. Subsequently claims 

 were accepted up to 3rd October as an act of grace and on the 

 understanding that payment could not be made at the beginning 

 of the year. These latter claims number about 30,000 and these 

 will be paid in the course of a month or six weeks, together with 

 any outstanding cases remaining from the earlier claims, where 

 for one reason or another the accuracy of the claim has not been 

 proved to the satisfaction of the Ministry. In the case of about 

 25 per cent, of the claims received further enquiry has been 

 necessary, and although most of these have been satisfactorily 

 settled, a proportion still remains to be dealt with. Many of 

 these consist of cases where an incoming and an outgoing tenant 

 have claimed for the same crops. It is anticipated that when 

 all claims have been paid the total sum which will have been 

 received by growers of wheat or oats in England and Wales will 

 amount to about .415. 000.000. 



" The examination and payment of these claims involves an 

 immense amount of work which is being carried out by a tem- 

 porary staff of ex- Service men under the supervision of perma- 

 nent officers of the Department, and although a large part has 

 been disposed of. much remains to be done. Persons whose 

 claims have been duly acknowledged can rely on receiving 

 payment in due course and are requested not to write to the 

 Ministry making enquiries on the subject as such letters neces- 

 sarily tend to delay the rapid progress of the work." 



By the time this Journal appears a further 17.000 claims will 

 have been paid, and by the middle of the month very few cases 

 indeed will remain outstanding. 



An important new Order has been issued by the Ministry 

 entitled the " Exportation and Transit of Horses, Asses arid 

 Ex ortation of Mutes Order oi 19 '21," the object of which 



V_ : is the better regulation of the traffic in 



Horses : . , * . Al . 



_ , horses bv sea and rail, with a view to the 



New Order, . 



protection of the animals against avoidable 



suffering. The Order is complementary to the Diseases of 

 Animals Act. 1910. and the Exportation of Horses Act. 

 1914. which prohibit the shipment of any horses from 

 this country to the continent of Europe unless they have 

 been passed by a veterinary inspector of the Ministry as fit 

 to travel and fit to work. The arrangements for the administra- 



