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The Plant Pests Ordinance, 1907. — Cevlon Govt. Gazette, Colombo, 

 no. 7214, 30th September 1920. [Received 7th February 1922.] 



By a proclamation dated 30th September 1921, under the Plant 

 Pests Ordinance, 1907, Nephantis serinopa (coconut caterpillar) is 

 declared a pest. Owners or occupiers of coconut plantations on which 

 any stage of this moth is present are to burn light traps or fires (the 

 form of which is defined) for at least two hours between 7 and 10 p.m. 

 for ten consecutive weeks, at the rate of at least three to every acre. 



Quarantine Proclamation, No. 87. — Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, 

 Melbourne, no. 94, 8th December 1921. [Received 7th February 

 1922.] 



By a proclamation dated 8th December 1921, under the Quarantine 

 Act, 1908-1920, a proclamation of the 29th September 1921 prohibiting 

 the importation into Australia from New Zealand of plants, due to the 

 existence of Bacillus amylovorus (pear blight), is repealed, and the 

 importation into Australia from New Zealand of all plants and parts 

 of plants (including fruit) is prohibited, provided that agricultural 

 seeds, grass seeds, flower seeds, and seeds of pine trees may be imported, 

 subject to the exception of the seeds of any plant of the family Rosaceae 

 and the seeds of any fruit tree. 



Order in Council. — Kingstown, St. Vincent, 30th December 1920. 

 [Received 16th February 1922.] 



By an order in council under " The Importation of Plants Diseases 

 Prevention Ordinance (No. 9), 1906," owing to the presence of " yellow 

 stripe " or mosaic disease of sugar-cane in the West Indies, no sugar- 

 cane, sugar-cane plant, root or cutting in any form shall be imported 

 or introduced into St. Vincent from any place whatsoever. This order 

 is in substitution of an order dated 18th November 1920. 



Plants Protection Ordinance, 1909. — Saint Lucia, 2nd x\pril 1921. 

 [Received 18th February 1922.] 



The regulations under the above ordinance pubUshed in 1916 

 remain in force, and a proclamation dated 2nd April 1921 prohibits 

 the importation into St. Lucia of any sugar-cane plant cuttings, or 

 any grass, fodder, or seeds of grasses and sorghum from any place 

 whatsoever outside the Colony. This does not apply to importations 

 of the above plants imported under licence given b^^ the Governor. 

 These regulations are to protect the Island from mosaic disease, which 

 does not exist there at present. 



Brittaik (W. H.). Report of the Professor of Zoology and Provincial 

 Entomologist. — Ann. Kept. Secy, for Agric, Nova Scotia, 1920, 

 Halifax, 1921, pp. 42-58. [Received 12th January 1922.] 



The campaign against the brown-tail moth [Nygmia phaeorrJioea] 

 was on the same lines as those of former seasons. A list of the food- 

 plants is given on which the species has been found during the past few- 

 years. Experiments prove that excessively low temperatures cannot 

 be relied upon to produce excessive mortality among the larvae. 



Reports are given of nursery stock inspection, apiary inspection, 

 and investigation work. Orchard and potato spraying and dusting 



