§ MAJOR RASCHI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he will relax the last swine fever order where pigs are free from disease, in order that the owners may be allowed to move them along the roads to shack after harvest?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTUREI should be very glad to find myself in a position to comply with the suggestion of my honourable and gallant Friend, but I am afraid it cannot be said that swine fever has as yet been extinguished in any part of the county of Essex, and experience has shown that the shacking season is a very dangerous one from the point of view of the spread of infection. In these circumstances I could not relax the Order referred to without incurring the risk of my having to impose still more severe restrictions in the near future.