IMPORTATION OF FRUIT.
FURTHER REGULATIONS. Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 27. Fresh regulations are gazetted tonight, under tho “Orchard and Garden Pest Act,” with regard to the importation of fruit and plants. These are designed to keep the Heditterrauean fly, Queensland fly, Sail Jose scale, and other pests out of the country. It is provided that in tho future all fruit shall be accompanied by a certificate that no species of fruit fly was known to exist within a mile of the orchard where such fruit was grown, and by a declaration from a Government inspector, that at the time of shipment the fruit was freo ~ from disease and grown more than a mile from any infected orchard.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2127, 28 February 1908, Page 2
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117IMPORTATION OF FRUIT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2127, 28 February 1908, Page 2
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