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tion of suspected plants and fruits in the diflFerent districts. 

 Through the scare raised, some ten years ago, in Europe, 

 over the danger of introducing San Jose Scale ( Aspidiotus 

 perniciosus) into their orchards from the United States, the 

 German Government passed a law against the admission of 

 infested or diseased fruit. 



It is hardly necessary to enter into a detailed account of 

 the various laws in force among the European nations, most 

 of which have been passed to deal with Phylloxera, which, in 

 spite of all the laws and regulations, has spread all over the 

 world. 



A great deal of interesting information can be gained by a 

 study of the Vegetation Diseases Acts and subsequent regu- 

 lations in force in the Australian States and New Zealand. 

 The first Act dealing with insect-pests, that came into force in 

 Tasmania, was the Codlin Moth Act of 1887. It was repealed 

 the following year, and replaced by "an Act to make better 

 provision for the Destruction of the Codlin Moth, October, 

 1888." This Act, afterwards cited as the "Codlin Moth Act, 

 1888," was a comprehensive one, in which Tasmania was 

 divided into thirty fruit-districts, each of which was under 

 the charge of a Fruit Board, the members of which were 

 fruit-growers, elected by the fruit-growers of the district- 

 They received no remuneration, but appointed paid Fruit 

 Inspectors. A tax of four shillings per acre was levied on all 

 orchards, to raise funds to pay the inspectors' salaries and 

 ether expenses. 



In 1891, the Codlin Moth Amendment Act came into 

 force, and the new regulations, which did not alter the old 

 Act, but chiefly the method of the election of the Boards, 

 were issued in June, 1892. The Chief Inspector of Stock was 

 invested with powers to enforce the provisions of the Act. In 

 1900, another Act to amend the Codlin Moth Act of 1888, 

 came into force ("Codlin Moth Amendment Act, 1900"), but 

 again simply dealt with the election of the officers of the 

 Boards. 



