§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, what basis there was for issuing the Swine Fever (Regulation of Movement) Order, 1908, what was the object of the same, how many local authorities enforced it, and in how many instances cancelments of the original Order were issued.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The need for the uniformity and simplification of the conditions attaching to the movement of swine for slaughter has been for some time past strongly urged, especially by meat traders, and the object of the issue of the Order, to which, my hon. friend refers, was to give effect to those representations. The Order applies to the whole of Great Britain with the exception of three boroughs, which are subject to special Orders. The original Order was superseded and the new Order imposed in eleven districts.