§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, with reference to the case of the pig alleged to have been affected with swine fever and landed at Milford on the 21st November, 1905, were the usual representations made to the Irish Department of Agriculture; were the usual investigations made in Ireland in the district from which the pig was said to have come; and what was the result.
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYThe usual representations were made to the Irish Department of Agriculture in the case to which the hon. Member refers. The Department informed the Board that they were not able to trace the place of origin of this particular animal, but that they had ascertained that it was one of a number exposed for sale at Carlow Fair on the 21st November, 1905. General inquiries as to the health of swine in the neighbourhood of Carlow were made, but with negative results.
§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether, in all cases of the alleged importation of swine fever from Ireland, representations have been made to the Irish Department; and can he give any specific instance of swine fever having been discovered in the district from which the alleged disease was said to have been imported into Great Britain.
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYThe Answer to both Questions is in the affirmative. Representations were made in 1902 to the Irish Department with reference to certain swine imported from county Cavan, and the investigations thus set on foot brought to light the existence of disease in that district.