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FOOT-AND-MoUTH DISEASE. [AUG., 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have received from the 

 Development Commissioners the following statement respecting applica- 

 A lications for for advances from the Development Fund 



. .^^ „ for the establishment of motor services in 



Advances from the ^^^^^ ^.^^^.^^^ 



Development Fund attention of the Development Com- 



for Motor Services niissioners has recently been called to the 

 in Rural Districts. question of assisting, by advances from the 



Development Fund, the establishment of motor services iri rural districts. 

 They have adopted the following as conditions with which they think 



that all schemes for that purpose should comply before they can be 



recommended to the Treasury : — 



(1) Application should be made only for an advance towards the 

 initial capital expenditure necessary. 



(2) The application should be for an advance by way of loan rather 

 than by way of grant ; rates of interest and terms of repayment will be 

 fixed according to the circumstances of each case. 



(3) A local contribution should be forthcoming of a reasonable propor- 

 tion of the capital sum required. 



(4) It should be shown that full provision is or will be made for 

 putting in order (where necessar}'), and for maintaining the roads on 

 w^hich the service is to run. 



(5) Proper provision should be made for maintaining the service, 

 without recourse to the Development Fund. 



A Conference, arranged by the President of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries between delegates from the Berkshire and Adjoining 

 Counties Dairy Farmers' Association and 

 Carriage of Milk representatives of the Great Western Railway 

 by Rail Company, took place at Reading on July 3rd 



with reference to the railway facilities afforded 

 for the milk traffic in the area embraced by the Association. 



Mr. J. Cornelius, of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, pre- 

 sided, and the following gentlemen were present : Mr. W. A. Mount, 

 M.P., Mr. J. Lousley, Mr. T. Latham, Mr. F. Habgood, Mr. R. C. 

 Nisbet, Mr. W. G. Clift, Mr. W. Farrant, Mr. A. E. Scutt, Mr. R. 

 Pyke, and others, representing the Association ; and Mr. J. Dunster, 

 Mr. J. V. Williams, and Mr. H. J. Rule representing the railway 

 company. 



After discussion, the railway representatives promised that several 

 of the questions raised by the Association should receive consideration. 



No further outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease have been reported 

 in Middlesex. The Board have caused very close inquiry to be made 

 as to the origin of this outbreak, but have 

 Foot-and-Mouth obtained no evidence throwing any light on 

 Disease in the subject. The Board have made Orders 



Middlesex and Sussex, withdrawing, as from the 8th inst., all the 

 restrictions imposed by them on the movement 

 of animals in connection with these outbreaks. 



On the 17th July the Board received a report of suspected Foot-and- 



