Captain CAZALETasked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he has any information to give the House in regard to the state of foot-and-mouth disease in Southern Rhodesia; and whether he has received any representation from the Government of that Colony in regard to this matter?
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Mr. THOMASThe most recent information that I have received as to foot-and-mouth disease in Southern Rhodesia is that there has been very little spread of the disease lately and that the prospects of its dying out are good. The matter has not formed the subject of representations to me by the Government of Southern Rhodesia, but the Governments of Southern and Northern Rhodesia have been in correspondence with regard to the problem arising out of the existence of the disease in Southern Rhodesia, and a Veterinary Conference consisting of representatives of these Governments and of the Governments of the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the Belgian Congo was held last December in Southern Rhodesia to consider them.