§ SIR JOHN LENGI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he can now lay upon the Table of the House representations received by him from the Minister of Agriculture in the Dominion of Canada respecting the prohibition of the sale of live Canadian cattle in the United Kingdom, although upwards of 800,000 have been slaughtered without any trace of disease, and also any reply which has been made to these representations.
§ * MR. HANBURYThe hon. Member does not seem to be aware that the prohibition of the sale of live cattle imported from abroad, except at the foreign wharves for slaughter there, is not limited by any means to Canada, and that it is not due to any regulation of the Board of Agriculture, but to an Act passed so recently as 1896. I shall be glad to show the hon. Member a copy of the correspondence.