COCONUT PLANTER'S MANUAL. 53 



THE PLANT PESTS ORDINANCE. 

 Ordinance No. 6 of ] 907. 



This Ordinance provides for the destruction of plant pests and 

 for the sanitation of plants in the Colony. The Governor in Executive 

 Council may proclaim in the Gazette (l) insects, parasitic plants; and 

 fungi to be pests, (2) the measures for prevention, arrest, and eradi- 

 cation of such pests. The Governor may appoint for three years for 

 any revenue district four to seven members to form a Plant Pests 

 Board. 



The Government Agent (or the Assistant Government Agent) shall 

 be its ex-officio Chairman, and he may appoint its Secretary and other 

 officers, and may convene meetings of the Board. On being satisfied 

 of the existence within its jurisdiction of a proclaimed pest, the Board 

 may enforce the carrying out of such preventive or remedial measures 

 as are specified by the Governor in the Proclamation and are 

 approved by the Committee of Agricultural Experiments. The owner 

 or occupier of the land affected is liable both criminally and civilly to 

 carry out the measures notified to him by the Board. The Board 

 may through the Chairman authorize right of entry for purposes of 

 inspection. The owner is not entitled to any compensation in respect 

 of damage occasioned by the measures ordered, but the Governor in 

 Executive Council may grant compensation for plants destroyed. The 

 Chairman of the Board must notify the existence of any pest within 

 its area to the Chairmen of Boards of adjoining districts, to the 

 Government Agent, to the Colonial Secretary, and to the Chairman of 

 the Committee of Agricultural Experiments. 



The following Proclamations have been issued and are still iu 

 force :— 



Pests. Measures for Treatment. 



I. — \a) Red coconut beetle Destruction by fire of fallen or dead 



(Rhyncophorm J'erru- coconut trees. All unsplit coconut 



gineus) stems more than twelve months old 



(b) Black coconut beetle must be removed from fences, and 



(Oryctes rhinoceros) the further use of unsplit coconut 



stem for fences is prohibited. (July 

 and October, 1907,) 



II. — The fungus Theilamop- Cutting out and burning the diseased 



sis ethacetlcas, causing parts of the tree, scorching the 



the stem bleeding dis- wound, and tarring it with hot tar. 



ease of the coconut tree (February, 1908,) 



