POTATO EMBARGO.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 8

POTATO EMBARGO.

• CONDITIONAL ADMISSION. INSPECTION OF FARMS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) OAMARU, this day. . The Minister of Agriculture. Hon. W. Nosworthy, made a statement to-day regarding the Australian embargo on potatoes. He said that while in Australia lately the Director-General of Agriculture discussed with the Australian authorities the question of the embargo. As the result of the discussions ' which took place the Victorian Government decided that it would-be willing for New Zealand potatoes to be admitted under certain conditions, which may be summarised as follows:— Tbat provision be made by regulation under the. Federal. Quarantine Act to allow the admission of • New Zealand potatoes, if they are accompanied by f. Government certificate of having been examined and found free from powders scab or other scheduled disease. . Also, that they have been grown, on a farm or farms on which a special inspection has shown no indication of tbe existence of powdery scab for a period' of twelve months. Inspection at the port of entry will be provided for, and it may be that the growers will be required to stencil ithcir names on the bags. .. "When Dr. Eeakes left. Australia," said the Minister, "the matter was in the hands of the Commonwealth authorities, and he had very good reasons for hoping that it would go through all right."