Pakistan Cattle in Papua
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t[ In London for the Coronation, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna was presented with an inscribed antique silver tray by the First National Film Corporation. The tray is inscribed, “Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna With sincere appreciation of his consid erable kindness and co-operation during the filming in Fiji of Warner Bros, production His Majesty O’Keefe—l9s2.”
Twenty-two Pakistani cattle have been quarantine three miles outside of [?]ort Moresby for the last six months, these beasts were presented to the Aus tralian government by Pakistan and were town to Port Moresby by Qantas last December. A remarkable feature of the attle-lift was the fact that the animals [?]ere not permitted to touch the ground taring the 15 stops on the 6,000-mile flight [?]t were exercised and fed in special pens
[?]ttached to the plane, his was to prevent the troduction of cattle seases endemic in Asia [?]at not known in Aus tralia or New Guinea.
The animals have been strict quarantine since [?] arrived in Moresby [?] will remain so at [?] pleasure of the SIRO which will later pervise experimental [?]reeding from them.
They are unusual [?]y oking, small, friendly [?]imals with shining [?]ay coats. Their en osure is surrounded by [?]gh barbed-wire and [?]ire-netting fences and flood-lit at night—in [?]se any village dog [?]ould break through the [?]ard. If a dog did get [?] he would not get out gain alive.
Cars entering and leav ing the station drive trough a cement trough disinfectant, and those ho work with the cattle iter the cattle enclosure
through a shower-room where they put on gum boots and walk through another trough of disinfectant before contact with the cattle. On the return journey, they walk through the disinfectant again, dis robe in the shower room, bathe, and put on fresh clothes before they are permitted into the outer part of the quarantine station.
The photographs show (left) some of the cattle; and (right) one of the officers of the Department of Agriculture walking into the shower-room through the bath of disinfectant.