Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
6 years of importing suspected infected material, i despair ! Its extremely hard to not think that eventually NZ will have all the diseases of the world due to incompetence, ignorance, resistance and self interest from some ofthe farmers and growers and our propensity and reliance on travel and tourism . Customs will never be vigourish enough for fear of putting tourists off. Burning material after 6 years of importation of material. Well maybe MPI are becoming more efficient and assertive, i hope it is and not just some bum covering and job justification, heres hoping.
As far as I know.. They were not suspect imports to begin with.. Sh$t happens..

Vigourish/Vigorish . ?? MPI I would like to think they could never be accused of either of those.

MPI may possibly be accused of being over the top with this one..
However I would prefer it that way than to suddenly find we have foot and mouth.

Just another problem for us to overcome .. And we will..

What ever happened to Dutch Elm Disease ??.
I do not know.. Is it still a problem.. Or have we learnt to live with it.. ??

Still more interested in what SCL have to say about this than pointing fingers..