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Of these shipments, 24,045 packages came as freight, 172 pack- 

 ages as baggage and 65 packages m the mail 



RICE SHIP-MENTS. 



During the month 29,254 bags of rice arrived from Japan wliicli 

 were found free from weevil and other pests and were passed. 



PESTS INTERCEPTED. 



Sixty-five packages of fruit and 20 packages of vegetables were 

 found in the baggage of the passengers and immigrants from the 

 Orient, and this material was destroyed by burning. 



Several small lots of orchids came from JMamla which were 

 infested with scale insects and ants. Six boxes of apples from 

 California were destroyed on account of being infested with the 

 codlin moth. A small shipment of gardenia Horida from Japan 

 was found badly infested with larvae of a wood-boring moth. 

 This is the second shipment found thus infested and all the plants 

 were destroyed in the garbage incinerator. In a plant shipment 

 from Japan w^e found in the soil a number of larvae and pupae of 

 a cicada or harvest fly. This is the first time cicadas have been 

 found in plant shipments. The cicadas are very injurious insects 

 in many countries. They include the well-known 17-year locust 

 of the Eastern United ^States, about which so much has been 

 written and wdiich causes so much damage to farm and forest 

 growth. 



Two species of ants were found in soil around plants — Lastiis 

 niger from Japan, and Moiioiiioriiiiii pliaraoiiis, the common house 

 ant, in soil from Manila. 



Late in the afternoon of the 28th insl. the ^iakura arrived 

 from Sydney via Suva, and just before sailing, late at night, one 

 of the crew threw a crate of rotten bananas on the dock which 

 belonged to a passenger going to Victoria, B. C. The crate and 

 contents were taken to the incinerator early the next morning and 

 burned. It is very fortuante that this fruit was not infested 

 with maggots of the banana fruit fly, which would no doulit have 

 crawled into the crevices of the dock. 



]IILO INSPECTION. 



Brother Matthias Newell reports the arrival at Hilo of six ves- 

 sels, five of which brought vegetable matter consisting of 157 

 lots and 3240 packages. Six crates of celery had to be cleaned 

 from adhering soil, (^ne sailing vessel brought 500 tons of clean 

 and dredged sand from San Diego bay, California, and consigned 

 to the Ililo Railroad. 



