Copy.
Enclosure No. 1.
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HEALTH OF ANIMALS BRANCH,
The Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong, China.
Ottawa, February 19th, 1925.
Not enclosed.
Dear Sir:
I beg to enclose copies of communications received
at this office, in connection with a shipment of what was described and certified as fifteen cases of sausage, exported
from Hong Kong to Wing Hong Yuen at Victoria, and covered by
a certificate signed by Walter J. E. MacKenzie, Colonial
Veterinarian, that this shipment conformed with the require-
ments of the Meat and Canned Foods Act. The packages in
question were marked with his official stamp.
You will note from the statement of the Customs
Appraiser that this shipment was wrongly described and
certified and has not been permitted entry into Canada.
I have taken this matter up with the Deputy
Minister of Agriculture and I am advised to communicate with
you to the effect that certificates signed by this officer
cannot be accepted in future.
I regret this action, yet the provisions of the
Canadian Statutes must be observed and I am forwarding, for
your information, a copy of the Act and the Regulations, by
which you will see that the only grounds upon which these
certificates can be issued, are, when the establishment in
which the animals are slaughtered is under the constant
supervision and control of a Veterinary Inspector of the
National Goverment, and that the manufacture of the products
must