24 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA. 



To make the Act more effective it is necessary that 

 the staff of inspectors be increased to the number origi- 

 nallv recommended by the Board, viz., twelve. There 

 are now only seven (7), and they have to spend a large 

 amount of their time in Melbourne, inspecting both 

 exported and imported fruit. The export of fruit is 

 increasing year by year, and there is every probability 

 that it will reach very large dimensions. 



So far there has been very little friction in working 

 the Act ; and as we are looking forward to a large 

 expansion of our fruit-growing industry, we are of 

 oj)inion that, seeing there is a permanent measure in each 

 of the other colonies for dealing with diseases in fruits, 

 the continuance of this Act is fully justified, and that it 

 should be made a permanent measure. 



On behalf of the Board, 



JOSEPH HARRIS, 



10th August, 1899. Chairman. 



