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REPORT on Horses in Gambaga District, Northern Territories, for the Year Ended 31st December, 1906.
During the last half year, the health of horses in this district was good. There were a few isolated cases of yaws. I have not known of any case of tsetse fly disease among horses since up here.
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No. 110.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.
Downing Street, 25 March, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th of March, and to ask you to convey his thanks to the Board of Agri- culture for having nominated Mr. A. W. Anstruther and Mr. Stuart Stockman to serve on the Colonial Veterinary Committee.
2. Notices of the meeting of the Committee will be sent to them in due course.
my arrival
C. C. LEFANU, Acting Senior Medical Officer.
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H. BERTRAM COX.
J.
No. 111.
MALTA.
REPORT on Horses in Kintampo District, for the Year Ended 31st December, 1908.
Horses do badly in Kintampo, very few have ever lived for more than two or three months after their arrival.
In fact, no kind of animal seems to thrive here; cows rapidly waste to a shadow and die if kept; sheep, and even imported dogs, follow the same fate.
The natives attribute this, as they always do, to the drinking water. I am very sceptical, for many reasons, as to its being the result of tsetse inoculation.
Only two horses have been kept in the station for any length of time during the past year Captain Charlton's, which unfortunately died out of the station, and no satisfactory details were obtained as to the cause of death, and my own, which I brought down from Wa in September last. The latter rapidly began to go off after arrival, and had to be sent out of the district for a change; this seems to have benefited it considerably, for it is apparently fit again. I have been giving it large doses of arsenic: this may account, perhaps, for its holding out rather longer than the usual span.
J. H. COLLIER, M.B.
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(No. 52.)
GOVERNOR SIR C. M. CLARKE to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received March 28, 1907.)
The Palace, Valletta, March 22, 1907. MY LORD,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's circular despatch of the 26th ultimo,† on the subject of the proposed scheme for improving veterinary departments and organizing veterinary research work in Crown Colonies and Protectorates.
2.
With reference to paragraphs 4 and 17 of the Circular, I may mention that no specific diseases are indigenous in this Colony.
3. As to paragraph 11, I have the honour to state that there are only three Government Veterinary Surgeons in Malta, whose salaries are £350, £200 and £120 per annum, respectively. In the event of the appointment of the Senior Govern- ment Veterinary Surgeon, to which a salary of £350 per annum is attached, falling vacant, there would be no objection on the part of this Government to a candidate being selected from the list mentioned in paragraph 10 of the circular.
I have, &c.,
CHAS. M. CLARKE,
Governor.
No. 109.
GIBRALTAR.
GOVERNOR SIR F. FORESTIER-WALKER to THE EARL OF ELGIN.
(No. 36.)
MY LORD,
(Received March 23, 1907.)
Gibraltar, March 18, 1907.
In reply to Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 26th ultimo,* on the question of putting veterinary matters in the Crown Colonies and Protectorates on a better footing, I have the honour to report that it is not considered that Gibraltar offers sufficient opportunities for investigations or research of the nature indicated in Your Lordship's despatch to necessitate or justify the appointment of a Veterinary Inspector.
2. It is true that the study and inspection of animals is of importance here in reference to the spread of Mediterranean fever and diseases generally, but the Officer of Health attached to the Sanitary Commissioners is capable of carrying out such investigations as may be needed in this limited area.
I have, &c.,
FREDK. FORESTIER-WALKER,
General and Governor.
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No. 112.
COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.
Downing Street, March 28, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of
your
letter
of the 18th of March, and to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Morley, in reply to the questions contained in it, that :-
(1) It is proposed that a fee should be payable by candidates for the veterinary appointments. A fee of £3 3s. is paid at present by candidates for veterinary appointments under the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and it is presumed that a similar fee would be charged by the Civil Service Commissioners in the present instance.
(2) It is not proposed to ask the Civil Service Commissioners to hold the examinations at fixed intervals and prescribed dates, but whenever it would be convenient for the different Departments concerned, subject, of course, to reasonable limitations.
(3) The list would be only a pass list," and no Department would be under any obligation to take a candidate whom it considered unsuitable on general grounds.
(4) It is proposed that candidates should be nominated for the examination
by the Departments concerned.
• No. 93.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
• No. 103.
† No. 93.
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