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Diseases of Animals Acts. 



[JUNE, 



The Annual Report of the Assistant Secretary (Mr. R. H. 

 Rew) in charge of the Land Division of the Board for the 

 year 1906 has now been presented to 

 Report of the Land Parliament. (Cd. 3504. Price, 2\d.). It 

 Division. comprises the statutory reports required 



to be laid annually before Parliament 

 by the Board, as the successors of the Tithe, Copyhold and In- 

 closure Commissioners, whose functions devolved in 1882 on the 

 Land Commissioners, and were transferred to the Board of 

 Agriculture on its formation in 1889. 



The business arising under the various Acts administered 

 in the Land Division is largely concerned with private or semi- 

 private interests, which for various reasons have been placed by 

 the Legislature in a greater or less degree under the supervision 

 or control of the Department. Comparatively few of the large 

 number of transactions passing through the Division in the 

 course of the year possess more than a transitory interest, except 

 to the individuals or localities immediately concerned, but the 

 proceedings as a whole are of considerable importance to the 

 community generally and to owners and occupiers of land in 

 particular. The Acts thus administered are the Tithe Acts, 

 the Copyhold Acts, Inclosure Acts, Agricultural Holdings Acts, 

 Drainage and Improvement of Land Acts, Universities and 

 Colleges Estates Acts, Glebe Lands Act, and certain other Acts. 



The Annual Reports of the proceedings of the Board of 



Agriculture and Fisheries under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 



&C, during 1006 have now been presented 

 Proceedings under the v» v In , „ T) • tN 



& to Parliament Cd. 3415. Price 15.). 



Diseases of Animals _ T r , , , r ». x T7 . 



The Report of the Chief \ etermary 



Acts 



Officer, Mr. Stewart Stockman, deals with 

 certain technical points in connection with swine-fever, anthrax, 

 and other diseases. Mr. Stockman states that during the 

 year he has spent much time in the laboratory at Sudbury deal- 

 ing with subjects under special investigation, which will form 

 material for special reports. It was hoped that it would have 

 been possible at an earlier date to have furnished a special report 

 on the work done in connection with swine-fever, but this work 



