812 Regulations for Conveyance of Plants. [Dec, 



Ministry, not more than nine months previously, that the 

 potatoes were grown on land which is not situated within a 

 Wart Disease Infected Atea and which is not w^ithin one mile 

 of any land on which an outbreak of wart disease has occurred. 

 In addition, if the potatoes are of a variety approved as immune 

 from wart disease, they must have been inspected while 

 growing and certified by the Ministry as true to type. The 

 reference numbers of the certificates issued by the 'Ministry 

 must be quoted by the sender on the form of declaration. 

 Applications for the Ministry's certificate should be accom- 

 panied by a declaration signed by the actual grower, stating 

 the variety of the potatoes and the place where they were 

 grown, and declaring that no outbreak of wart disease has 

 occurred thereon. 



Until 1st March, 1920, plants and flowers in pots could be 

 conveyed at company's risk or owner's risk, at full parcels 



« T» -1 scale or owner's risk scale respectively, 



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Regulations for ^'^J'^"* '^"y ^P^°"^^ protection. 

 Conve ance of -Notice was given by the liailway 

 T»i 1. J -ni Authorities to the horticultural trade that 



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the conditions under which they had been 



consigning their traffic had been completely cancelled and 

 that, from 1st March, plants and flowers in soil, other than in 

 truck loads, could only be accepted if packed in substantial 

 crates or wooden boxes admitting of traffic being loaded on 

 the top. 



In the majority of cases this drastic change would 

 undoubtedly have had the effect of killing the trade altogether, 

 owing to the high cost of crates or boxes. The question was 

 accordingly taken up by the Ministry, and through its inter- 

 vention the operation of the revised regulation was postponed, 

 on the understanding that a meeting should be convened by 

 the Ministry to give the Eailway Companies and the trade 

 an opportunity of ascertaining whether, without the imposition 

 of a prohibitive charge, a reasonable alternative course could 

 be found. Two conferences were held. The Ministry put 

 forward a suggestion to the effect that the difficulty could be 

 overcome by the adoption of two alternative rates for the 

 traffic, one to be applicable to plants packed in the customary 

 manner, w^hile the other and lower rate should apply to plants 

 packed in accordance with the Companies' new regulations. 



