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The bags, crates, etc., containing potatoes must be marked on the outside with the name of the country of origin, etc.

In the case of potatoes imported into Western Australia, they must be planted in quarantine in an approved place and may not be removed until they have matured and they and the product of their cultivation been found free from disease. The Minister may permit potatoes certified by a Quarantine Officer as free from disease to be imported for use as food under such conditions as the Minister may think fit to impose.

Statutory Rules, No. 121 of 1911.

Any person wishing to land any imported plants must give notice to the quarantine officer at the port of landing, and he either gives a certificate of freedom from disease or orders the plants into quarantine. Any package or packing material may be destroyed, if deemed necessary. Any imported plant after treatment at a quarantine station must be removed by the importer, and if unclaimed after seven days may be sold or destroyed.

Any imported fruit, vegetables, cereals, etc., of which any portion is found affected with disease, etc., may be treated, sorted or cleaned at the owner's expense and repacked in clean cases, etc., before-delivery. Any diseased fruit, etc., is either re-shipped or destroyed at the owner's expense. Permission must be obtained to import fodder from any country except New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and the fodder must be landed in quarantine at an approved place.

The following means of fumigating plants, etc., are approved and pre- scribed :-(a) Fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas; (b) fumigation with carbon bisulphide vapour; (c) immersion in formaldehyde solution; (d) immersion in or spraying with Bordeaux mixture; (e) immersion in a solution of copper sulphate or a mixture of carbonate of potassium and sulphate of copper in water; (f) boiling in water for at least two minutes for cases, packages and bags.

Any loss occasioned during the removal or treatment of imported plants is borne by the owner and no compensation for any such loss is given.

Proclamation, 1912.

Plants imported into the State of Western Australia and landed at Carnarvon are exempt from the provision requiring the cost of inspection and treatment to be paid by the importer. The importation of apples, pears and quinces into the State of Western Australia is prohibited in order to prevent the introduction of Codling Moth (Cydia pomonella).

A further proclamation of the same year states that apples, pears and quinces, may not be introduced into Western Australia from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia or Tasmania.

A proclamation of the same year prohibits the importation of fodder from any part of the world except New Zealand.

In a proclamation of the same year the following additional insects are declared noxious pests:-NITIDULIDAE (Carpophilus and other fruit beetles), PTINIDAE (all insects of this family), TROGOSITIDAE (cadelles and other grain and dried-fruit beetles).

Proclamation, 1913.

The importation into the State of South Australia is prohibited of any plant grown in soil (1) from any country, unless it is previously thoroughly cleansed of soil; provided that the Chief Quarantine Officer for Plants may admit any plant growing in a pot, etc., if he considers that its admission will entail no danger of introducing Phylloxera vastatrix; (2) from any country where Phylloxera vastatrix is known to exist, unless it is accompanied by a declaration (a) that the plant was grown at a greater distance than 5 miles from any grape-vine or root of such, and (b) that no P. vastatrix exists or has existed within 5 miles of the area in which the plant was growing.

The importation into Western Australia is prohibited of (a) walnuts from the State of California wherever such walnuts may have been grown; and (b) walnuts grown in the State of California wherever such walnuts may have been shipped.

Proclamation, 1915.

The introduction into Australia of the following plante is forbidden, unless certified by the Chief Quarantine Officer to be free from insect or fungus pests :- (1) All plants, including fruit and seed (other than manufactured products)

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liable to infestation by Hemileia aastatrix, from Ceylon, India, China, Malay Peninsula, etc.; (2) sugar-cane and banana plants, exclusive of the fruit of the latter, grown in New Guinea, Sandwich Islands, Fiji, etc., where they may be attacked by Sphenophorus sp.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Vine and Vegetation Diseases and Fruit Pests Act, No. 34 of 1912.

The Governor may (a) prohibit the introduction of vines, grapes or con- tainers; (b) prohibit the removal from one place in New South Wales to another of vines, grapes, containers, implements, etc.; (c) declare any land or building quarantined; (d) isolate any place, etc.

The Minister appoints inspectors, who may enter upon any vessel, land, etc., remove vines or grapes to a quarantine for further inspection and destroy any found diseased. The inspectors examine vineyards periodically and report any failure of the Board of the district to give effect to the provisions of this Act. On proof of disease being present the Governor may isolate any diseased vine- yard, and all vineyards within a radius of one mile, and cause all vines in such vineyards to be rooted up and burned and the land thoroughly trenched. If the owner of a vineyard ceases to cultivate it for two years he must root up all vines in it or they may be rooted up by the Minister at the owner's expense.

Vine-growers must at once notify the appearance of disease, and no plants may be planted for four years in any land from which diseased vines have been removed. Any vines wrongfully planted may be destroyed.

The Governor may declare any portion of New South Wales a vine district. A list of vine-growers in any new district must be published, and every occupier of a vineyard must make a return stating the number of acres planted with vines owned by him.

Compensation may be claimed :-(a) in respect of the rooting up of any vine- yard in which there is no disease to an amount not exceeding the rateable value of the vineyard; (b) in respect of the rooting up of vines in any vineyard on account of being diseased to an amount not exceeding 50 per cent. of the rateable value of the vineyard. No compensation is paid in respect of vines rooted up a neglected vineyard or of any loss sustained by the destruction of diseased vines, grapes, etc., introduced.

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In respect of other diseases and pests, the Governor may prohibit the impor- tation of plants likely to introduce any disease or insect, and the removal of any plant from one part of New South Wales to another, if it is liable to cause the spread of disease. He may alter or revoke any regulation. No insect or fungus may be imported except for scientific purposes under special permission. Any article introduced in contravention of this Act may be seized and destroyed or otherwise dealt with. Any person so authorised may enter upon any vessel or place to search for insects and fungi and diseased plants and packages likely to convey disease, and no compensation shall be given for any damage (unless wilful) done by him. He may give notice (which may be appealed from) to the occupier, to treat diseases or pests found. If such notice is not complied with, the in- spector may take the measures necessary at the owner's expense. Any nursery may be inspected and certificate of freedom from disease given.

No compensa- tion will be paid for any fruit, etc., destroyed under this Act.

Regulations, 1913.

No fruit, vegetables or plants may be imported into New South Wales from any other State of Australia unless :-(a) The packages containing them are new; (b) their arrival has been notified and they have been inspected and a certificate given of freedom from disease, etc.; (c) every article has marked upon it the grower's name and address or his registered mark or brand; (d) the inspection fees are paid.

Cases of condemned fruit which have a fair proportion of fruit free from disease may be sorted, the diseased fruit being destroyed at the expense of the consignee or importer. Slightly diseased fruit may be imported for manufac turing purposes only, and inspected on arrival. No such fruit may be sold or distributed except in a manufactured state.

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In the case of potatoes, in addition to the above regulations, the word Potatoes " must be marked on the bag or case, and a certificate obtained at the port of export as to their freedom from Irish Blight and any other potato

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