INFECTED SHEEP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2446, 10 March 1909, Page 4

INFECTED SHEEP.

NEED FOR DIPPING. The Inspector in charge of the Agricultural Department at Gisborne (Mr Walter Miller) is sending out the following circular to various stock and station owners of the district: “I desire to bring under your notice that in tho interests of clients who from time to tiino either ship or send overland sheep from this to other districts they are advised that all sheep must be effectively dipped before leaving the district. As carelessness in this respect has been noticed. It is the intention of the Department in future to stop all sheep found to be infected with lice from proceeding until they have been satisfactorily dipped. As this course would no doubt entail much inconvenience and expense to the shippers, the remedy is in their own hands, and it must appeal to them that unclean sheep detected on landing from this district i 6 not only a reflection upon sheepfarmers, but also upon the officers of the Agricultural Department.” The circular has been found necessary by the fact that, while a consignment of five thousand sheep was being shipped for Timaru on Monday a. few infecod sheep were found among the flock while others had been improperly dipped. To have stopped tho whole consignment would have entailed hardship upon the shippers, so Mr Miller did the next best thing and wired the Department of Agriculture at Timaru of the fact- and advised that the whole consignment should be dipped on arrival there.