§ MR. WILLIAM WHITELAW (Perth)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to a Report, presented to the Canadian Parliament, declaring that no case of pleuro-pneu-monia had existed in the Dominion for several years past; and whether he pro- 1241 poses to take any further action with regard to the importation of Canadian cattle in consequence of this Report?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. H. GARDNER,) Essex, Saffron WaldenI have received, through the Colonial Office, a copy of a Report of a Committee of the Canadian Privy Council, in which it is stated that the Reports of the Veterinary Surgeons who have been engaged in an investigation of the matter establish that pleuro-pneumonia was not found in any of the localities whence the animals exported by the Monkseaton and Hurona were traced to have come, and further, that the disease had never been known or heard of in any of them. The Reports in question are equally positive in their declaration of such freedom from disease in relation to the whole of the Dominion. The Report of the Committee and other documents on the same subject are at the present moment under my consideration, and I hope in the course of a few days to announce the course which we propose to take in the matter.