8 Feb., 1907.] Commerce Act and Fruit Exports. 89 



prepared in considerable quantity from volk of egg and from brain. 

 Cholesterin. — With this body must be included the compounds it forms with 

 fatty acids. Cholesterin can be prepared from brain, but the readiest source 

 is wool -fat or lanoline. The compounds with fatty acids are much less 

 readily broken up than fats, and, in consequence, do not become rancid so 

 easily ; hence the importance of lanoline as a basis for ointment, and hence 

 the presence of cholesterin and its compounds in the natural ointment of most 

 mammalian skins. Cholesterin is also found in the bile, and when, by any 

 chance, it is no longer held in solution it forms a gall-stone or biliary 

 calculus. Cholesterin is a compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, but 

 its exact chemical nature has not been fullv made out. 



THE COMMERCE ACT AXD FRUIT EXPORTS. 



/. G. Turner, Inspector under tJie Commerce Act. 



The relation of the Regulations of the Commerca Act to fruit exports 

 is, to some extent, misunderstood by many of those who intend shipping 

 this season. This, no doubt, is due largely to the complex nature of the 

 regulations, applying, as they do, to so manv different goods. It is in- 

 tended in this article to briefly set out the requirements of these regulations 

 as applied to fresh fruits exported to London and other extra-Australasian 

 ports. 



Apples. — These may be put up in cases containing one bushel net. 

 The case most suitable for this is the one set out in the recently-passed 

 Fruit Cases Act of Victoria. By adopting this case shippers will save 

 the trouble, time, and expense of weighing or counting the contents of each 



Cleo, -Ihm. 



APPLES. 



JOHN SMITH, 



VICTORIA, 



AUSTRALIA. 



1 bushel net. 



case. The measurements given in the second schedule to the Act referred 

 to are 18 x 14 x 8| inches (inside measurements). No' divisions are 

 allowed in such cases. A case of this size under the new laiw is deemed 

 to contain 2237 cubic inches, and to have a capacity of not less than one 

 Imperial bushel, so that exporters using cases of the standard size may 

 safely mark them as containing " one bushel net." A smaller case, half 

 the size of the one just described, is included in the schedule, but is not 

 likely to be much used. 



