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are harbors for the pests. Administration. — We think the success 

 of 'the Bill will depend on its being well and wisely administered, 

 and we think the interested parties should have a voice in the ad- 

 ministration of the Bill. 



We would suggest that six inspectors be appointed; the 

 colony divided into six fruit districts ; that each fruit-growers' 

 or horticultural society in each district appoint a local board 

 of advice, said board to act in conjunction with the inspector, 

 rendering him all assistance possible ; the inspector to submit a 

 report on the state of the district for said board's guidance, and 

 that no inspector take action against any one without the consent 

 of the board. The idea is that an inspector's district may be 

 perhaps 40 miles square ; he may be at one point to-day, but he 

 may not be there again for a month. 



The appointment of a local board, like a board of health, would 

 be a responsible board always there ; and further, we think that 

 to administer the Bill properly there should be appointed a central , 

 Horticultural board under the presidency of the Hon. the Minister 

 for Agriculture. Such board to be elective, and to hold office for, 

 say, two years, to always meet in Melbourne, and to consist of, say, 

 six fruit districts, each district to elect three representatives — 

 eighteen members in all, with the Minister for Agriculture, ex 

 officio, president. 



Just one other little matter and I am done, some money is bound 

 to be spent, no Act can be worked without cost, and we think we 

 ought to make war pay for war. A good deal of agitating has 

 been done, and a good many attempts made to have duties placed 

 on bananas and other foreign products, which coming in direct 

 competition with us cause us to suffer to a good extent, and we 

 think that as the Government is hampered for want of money, 

 some such scheme ought to be adopted ; such as a duty on early 

 vegetables from Sydney, peas, beans, &c., a duty of say Is. per 

 bunch on bananas, and we would have more than sufficient money 

 to run our Insect Pests Bill. 



Mr. C. Allen, jun., Brighton, on the subject of fruit trees 

 and their pests, said: — I have had considerable experience in 

 insect pests. I think it will be of use if I define the different 

 insects that attack the various kinds of trees. For instance, the 

 apple. There are the codlin moth grub, the light-brown moth 

 grub, the mussel scale, the curculio beetle, the harlequin bug, and 

 the fusicladium or black spot. These only affect the fruit, but 

 do not kill the trees. As to the pests that destroy the trees, there 

 are the apple tree-borer, the root-borer, the prosops pidisequus. 



