134 t:.; Journal of the Department of Agriculture. 



2. (1) Notwithstanding' anything contained in section seven or 

 in section fifteen of the said Act, no compensation shall be paid to the 

 owner or occupier of any nursery or of any premises, in respect of — 



{a) the destruction after the thirty-first day of March, 1920, of 

 any plant on account of its having been infected with citrus 

 canker ; or 



(h) the destruction after the commencement of this Act of any 

 plant planted, raised, or kept in contravention of section 

 one of this Act. 



(2) Notwithstanding anything in the said Act contained, any 

 agreement entered into with the Department of Agriculture since 

 the eighth day of July, 1918, whereby any person has undertaken not 

 to claim compensation under the said Act in respect of the destruction 

 of his plants by reason of the presence of citrus canker shall be binding 

 on such person and on any person deriving from him title to the land 

 on which the plants existed. 



3. This Act may be cited for all 

 Pests (Citrus Canker) Act 1919. 



purposes as the Agricultural 



The World's Harvest. 



The following interesting statistics are extracted from the Inter- 

 national Crop Heport, February, 1920: — 



Northern HeTnisphere, 1919. 



* In the Southern Hemisphere the Australian wheat crop of 1919-20 is only 54 - 4 per cent, 

 the quantity of the previous season's yield 'and as low as 38-3 per cent, of the country's 

 average yield for the five years ended 1917-18. 



