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Live Stock Import Regulations, [march, 



otherwise, opportunity would be afforded for proper examination 

 of pigs killed at these establishments. 



* Dr. Buchanan also mentions the question of dealing with 

 condemned meat so as to permit its utilization for human food. 

 Suitable treatment, by way of special cooking or sterilizing 

 would enable a large proportion of such condemned meat to be 

 used for food, and although the product would necessarily be 

 sold at a cheap price, some return could be made to the 

 owner of the condemned carcase. 



According to the Diseased Animals Importation Prevention 

 Act, dated September 9th, 1898, all animals intended to be 

 imported into Tasmania, other than from 



Live Stock Import Australia, New Zealand, and part of Africa, 



any place other than the Quarantine Grounds, Middle Island, 

 River Tamar, or Nubeena, River Derwent. 



Notice and Declarations. — Every person desiring to introduce 

 any animal into Tasmania shall give six weeks' previous notice 

 in* writing to the Chief Inspector of Sheep at Hobart, giving 

 particulars of the description, number and brands (if any) of the 

 animals intended to be introduced ; the place whence, and the 

 time when, they were shipped ; and the name of the vessel by 

 which they are expected to be conveyed. 



The health of such animals shall be authenticated by the 

 declarations mentioned below, which are to be forwarded to the 

 Chief Inspector at Hobart within twenty-four hours of their 

 arrival in Tasmania : — 



(a) A declaration by the breeder or owner that the animal was 

 at the time of shipment, and had been for the preceding sixty 

 days, free from infection, and had not during such period been 

 in contact with, or feeding on the same land with, any animal 

 infected with disease ; and that it was not conveyed to the port 

 of shipment in any vehicle, or, if so conveyed, that such vehicle 

 had, before conveying such animal, been washed and disinfected. 



* Live stock import regulations have been published in this Journal for the follow- 

 ing countries : — United States, June, 1903, and Oct., 1904; Argentina, Jan., 1905 ; 

 Cape Colony, Feb., 1905 ; Canada, March, 1905 ; New South Wales, April, 1905 ; 

 Germany, May, 1905 ; New Zealand, June, 1905 ; South Australia, July, 1905 ; 

 France, August, 1905 ; Belgium, Sept., 1905 ; Uruguay, Oct., 1905 ; A T ictoria, 

 Nov., 1905; Spain, Dec, 1905; Queensland, Jan., 1906; and Western Australia, 

 Feb., 1906. 



Regulations.— 

 Tasmania.* 



must be shipped at the port of London. 

 No animal shall be landed in Tasmania at 



