PLANT PROTECTION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 13

PLANT PROTECTION

MYCOLOGICAL BUREAU

CONFERENCE AX KEW

(From "Tha^Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, 26th September. .-. Lord Buxton, who is Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Kow Green," opened the second Imperial Mycological Conference on Monday. Delegates are present from all the Dominions and from most of the Colonies.and' Dependencies. . . . .■•".•....!

Lord Buxton stated that a new building for the use of the .bureau was being fi ?? n? GW ' at' a cosfc > wit!l of £12,000. A grant o f £8000 had; been^made by the Empire Marketing Board, and the balance was drawn frota. the bureau's reserves, built up by Dr : Butler. An admirable site had been, obtained near the. Royal Herbarium, ■Kew, .which gave the bureau1 the advantage of being able to rely on the co-operation. of Dr. Hill, Director of: .Kew Gardens, and his staff; - " A paper giving a summary of plant protection regulations in the Dominions and Colonies was prepared by the Imperial Bureau of Mycology. It showed that most of the Dominions and Colonies had taken measures to exclude specined plants, either completely or from, certain places only. In a few cases ali plants, from certain places were excluded. Most Governments provided tor the compulsory examinations of-all plant imports, or their fumigation, against insects. In a few cases, exam-r ination on arrival was restricted to ce>taiu specified plants. In [practically,au cases where there was inspection' at the port of arrival, plant packings were also treated or destroyed. ' There was prohibition of the sale of any diseased plant in Canada,'Kenva and some other places; and a similar prohibition, in regard to certain 'specified, diseases only,, in, the Irish Free btate, New Zealand, and South Africa. Inspectors could examine any plant exposed for public sale, and order treatment or destruction in Canada, but in Victoria destruction required higher authority. Most countries were now prepared to issue certificates of health of consignments intended for export to countries requiring such certificates. In a few, export of certain consignments was apparently not allowed'without in-' spection and" .certification': '"' '' ' ;