CITRUS FRUIT CANKER
REGULATIONS ULTRA VIRES (0.c.) TAURANGA, Friday
A decision of' vital importance to the citrus fruit industry was given by Mr. E. Walton, 5..Y1., at Tauranga, when he ruled that the citrus canker regulations, 1910, went beyond the power given by the Orchard and Garden Disease Act, 1928, and dismissed charges against several Otumoetai growers of failing to destroy citrus trees alleged to be infected with citrus canker, when ordered to do so. The defendants were Ronald Sparling. Benjamin F. D. Davies, Mrs. I). M. Davies, Harry Graham Lever, Edith Effie Smith and William George Strange, all of Otumoetai. The charges were laid under regulation 3 of the citrus canker regulations, 1940. These were the first cases of the kind heard in New Zealand. The magistrate said the way in which the inspector formed his opinion was not in keeping with the authority he purported to act under. Jf an officer was going to act under these regulations. if they were sound, he must do it in a way the regulations prescribed. That had not been done.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24217, 7 March 1942, Page 8
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