HC Deb 21 March 1902 vol 105 c719
MR. LAMBERT

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether his attention has been directed to a resolution of the Devonshire County Council recommending that county councils should be empowered by legislation to prohibit the use for hire within their districts of stallions suffering from hereditaiy disease and whether he can see his way to initiating measures to give effect to such a recommendation.

THE PRESIDENT OF the BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. HANBURY,) Preston

The opinion of the Devonshire County Council is of course important, but so far it has not been supported by those most interested in the question, such as the Royal Agricultural Society or the Hunters' Improvement Society. Until the question, which is one involving a new principle, has been much more fully discussed it would, I think, he premature to initiate any legislation.