CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928 — Page 9

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