THE MINISTER INTERVIEWED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 2

THE MINISTER INTERVIEWED.

(By Telegraph.) (From Our Hpocial Reporter.) > TALHAPE, This Day. "I am sorry," «ud the lion. K. M-JSab to a Post reporter, "that during my vidit I hud reported to me an outbreak near Auckland city of what niy officers fear is tho dreaded truit-fly. An carctul scrutiny has failed to locate any symptoms of the fly in those places wheru tho outbreaks of last season occurred, 1 am hopeful that the steps wo took then will prove effective, and I personally feel that wo fan approach Uig contest with considerable confidence of success. The country is fo nlivo now to tho damjer 1 of this great pe^t that the handr, of our ,«talf aro stronglhened enormously Our new fruit regulations will require tho fruit to be accompanied by a certificate from the Department of Agriculture of the State from whence it cjuip, and ihe fact that it comes from an orchard not known to havo had fruit-fly. Tho failure to poetess such certificate allows tho department to tako htringuiit stops. In addition to the local inspection, it also gives us full powers to seize ami hold for inspection fruit which is suspected, Avitliout going so far as absolutely to prohibit it as fruit from an infected distnVt, ho (bat we can lay claim, immediately 'tho ri'sulatiorm are gazetted, that we havo efficient machinery to cope with tha pest."

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