§ MR. HAYWOOD JOHNSTONE (Sussex, N.W., Horsham)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether instructions will be given to Her Majesty's Consuls at foreign ports to note all shipments of hay or straw to the United Kingdom, and to> communicate to the Foreign Office without delay any case in which there is reason to suppose that hay or straw consigned to a port in the United Kingdom has come from a district in which any cattle disease exists or has existed within the last 12 months?
§ SIR E. GREYThe suggestion made by the hon. Member is one in regard to which the Foreign Office could only act on the advice of the Board of Agriculture, and I find on inquiry that that Department does not consider that its adoption would be of any assistance to them in the detection and extirpation of disease.