§ MR. SCHWANN () Manchester, N.To ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he can state when the restrictions on the importation of live cattle into England from the Argentine Republic can be removed, in view of the present price of meat.
(Answered by Mr. Hanbury.) The existing position with regard to the admission of cattle from Argentina was fully explained in the reply I made to a Question addressed to me by the hon. Member for Bolton on the 9th instant kindly refer. I have not as yet received any official information as to the passing
† See page 448.1323 of the new law, and of the issue of the necessary decree there under from the Argentine Government, but my expectation is that it will not be long before these matters are placed on a satisfactory footing, and it will then be my duty, in the absence of any further outbreak of disease, to withdraw the existing prohibition.