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Importation of Store Cattle. 



[Mar., 



except direct to a slaughterhouse by licence. The movement 

 of any stock out of the most densely infected areas was entirely 

 prohibited, i.e., out of (a) Durham and the greater part of 

 Northumberland; (b) the southern half of the West Kiding of 

 Yorkshire; (c) the East Riding of Yorkshire; and (d) Cheshire. 

 Certain prohibited areas were also maintained around the most 

 recent outlying infected centres. 



This Order was communicated to every Local Authority and 

 Chief Constable, as well as to the Ministry's Officers and to the 

 Press on Sunday night, 5th February. 



The work thrown upon both the indoor and outdoor staff of 

 the Ministry, and in many instances also upon the Local 

 Authorities, by this outbreak has been exceptionally heavy, neces- 

 sitating the addition of a large number of temporary Inspectors 

 for stock inspections, the arranging and supervision of slaugh- 

 tering operations, the sale of salvageable carcasses and the disin- 

 fection of infected premises. 



In reply to a question by Captain Fitzroy as to whether the 

 Government had considered the Report of the Royal Com- 

 I ort tion of miss i on on the embargo on Canadian 

 «r mm cattle ; and whether they proposed to make 

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any alteration m the Diseases 01 Animals 



Act, 1894, Sir Arthur G. Boscawen (Minister of Agriculture) 

 stated : ' ' The Government have carefully considered the Report 

 of the Royal Commission, but in view of the almost unanimous 

 opinion of agriculturists of all classes in England and Wales 

 that the removal of the embargo would seriously injure the 

 industry, and of the fact that the Commission themselves report 

 that it would have little effect on the price of meat, they do not 

 propose to introduce legislation for the purpose of removing it." 



In reply to supplementary questions, Sir A. G. Boscawen gave 

 the following answers : — 



" We have given consideration to opinion in Scotland, and 

 there is very great diversity of opinion on this matter a mom: 

 agriculturists in Scotland." 



" No Government is pledged to carry out all or any of the 

 recommendations of a Royal Commission, which are the 

 individual opinions of the Commissioners, and in this case even 

 if we had accepted their conclusions they themselves say that 

 they fully recognise that the opinion of Parliament may be a 

 reason for some delay in taking action. Apart from that I 



