§ MR. STANLEY LEIGHTON (Shropshire, Oswestry)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he has received a Resolution unanimously passed at a meeting of landowners and farmers at Ellesmere representing to the Board the inconvenience and loss caused by the present regulations in respect to the removal of swine in that neighbourhood, especially in the case of smaller farmers and freeholders; and whether he will consider the expediency of affording some relief by confining the area of restriction to a radius of one mile from the infected place, or otherwise?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. W. H. LONG,) Liverpool, West DerbyYes, Sir. I have received the Resolution to which my hon. Friend refers, but, inasmuch as outbreaks of swine fever continue from time to time to occur in the district around Ellesmere, I regret that it is not possible for me to give the relief asked for. If local authorities and the owners of stock would co-operate with us by accepting and enforcing to the fullest possible extent the regulations which we feel it incumbent upon us to make if swine fever is to be stamped out in the same way as other diseases have been, I cannot but believe that success would be soon attained, and I would earnestly appeal for such co-operation to those interested in the matter.