308 FUMIGATION METHODS 
Netherlands.—By decree of May 23, 1899, prohibits 
importation and transit, direct or indirect, of live trees 
and shrubs, or live parts thereof, produced in America, 
including boxes, casks, baskets, sacks, vessels, and 
other articles used for packing, unless accompanied by 
certificate issued by consular officer of Netherlands or 
competent authority in port of shipment, and objects 
shall not be landed unless certificate is satisfactory to 
receiver of import duties. 
The following exceptions are made: (1) Importa- 
tions from countries bordering on the Netherlands in 
which measures have been taken for combating the 
San José scale; (2) importations for scientific purposes; 
and (3) to meet requirements of frontier commerce. 
New Zealand.—The act of 1896 prohibits impor- 
tation of fruit of any kind infested with fruit-flies. 
Fruit infested with codling moth will be destroyed 
unless immediately reshipped. Fruit, plants, trees, 
cuttings or buds infested with any scale insect will be 
admitted only when accompanied by certificate. Other- 
wise it will be fumigated at expense of importer or 
destroyed. . 
Imported fruit admitted only at Bluff, Dunedin, 
Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland. 
Live plants admitted only at Dunedin, Christchuren, 
Wellington, and Auckland. 
Fumigation performed only at Dunedin, Christ- 
church, Wellington, and Auckland. 
Switzerland.—Prohibits plants; prohibits importa- 
tion of fresh fruit from America, except through 
Customs Bureau at Basle, where it is subject to an 
examination by an expert for San José scale or other 
