IMPORTED PLANTS STOPPED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 489, 23 April 1909, Page 8

IMPORTED PLANTS STOPPED.

v Numbers-of consignments of,, imported plants'; bulbs, etc., especially • thoso sont. by: parcels post; have' lately reached New./ Sea-,; land unaccompanied by the . certificate, pre-' 'scribed by' regulations. ' ■ : These- regulations . have ; now ; been■ in ;f orce for. fourteen,:months, and..'ample time .has-been: allowed.,.for.; all parties to .becomo'.'cognisant of. them. --liis,/ therefore, intended that'in future:all; packr' ages arriving'unaccompanied by; the required, certificate or '■ declaration shall; be refused delivery. require in:re,gard to plant's; is',.that: each .package .shall be accompanied,by a certificate signed .by a qualified officer: declaring that-the plants or bulbs, etc.', have been, examined and; found free from disease,- or j(if not clean) -that .they; have' been f umig'atcd/or; otherwise .treated, to; tiestroy tho. disease. ','.■'', ; ■.' .-■', -'vV- i; -; -'■'•'' " ' ■It- is' a: singular > ; fact,.;that 'although., many countries" ndWrTeqiiirb' .a', certificate. to- _ao- : company 'imported.' plants,' England alone has mado>o provision: for issuing .the certificates. It has appointed no officer to sign them. In some' cases this .disability has been surmounted by exporters themselves sending- along_ a. sworn declaration .to ,the effect required by the regulation; and as this action, shows'a gen-, uino desire- to meet' the regulations, the New Zealand authorities admit plants' so sent, subject, of course, to necessary examination here. Persons' -ordering plants :froni advised'to inform the vendors of the absolute 'necessity of 'sending a certificate,or declaration to comply '.with theregulations.;