igo/.] Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act. 



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sum the fee payable where the services of an Official Sampler 

 are called for by a purchaser. But the Board desire to point 

 out the desirability of making it widely known that the Local 

 Authority would welcome information as to the delivery of pur- 

 chases of fertilisers and feeding stuffs so that the Official 

 Sampler may, in cases where he thinks action might be useful, 

 take samples on behalf of the Local Authority which would 

 entail no expense on the purchaser. This fact, and the names 

 and addresses of the Official Agricultural Analyst and the 

 Official Samplers, might with advantage be advertised from 

 time to time. 



I am. Sir, your obedient Servant, 



T. H. Elliott, Secretary. 



Sir, — I am directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 to inform you that, in pursuance of the provisions of the above 

 Act, they have made and issued three sets of Regulations,* 

 copies of which are enclosed. These Regulations take effect 

 from the ist of January, 1907, from which date the Regulations 

 (made under the Act of 1893) previously in force are revoked. 



These Regulations comprise Fertilisers and Feeding 



Stuffs (Sampling, &c.) Regulations, 1906 ; 2. Fertilisers and 

 Feeding Stuffs (General) Regulations, 1906 ; 3. Fertilisers and 

 Feeding Stuffs (Limits of Error) Regulations, 1906. 



I. Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs (Sampling, &c.) 

 Regulations, 1906. 



It may be pointed out that, of these Regulations, No. 4 

 and 5, which refer to the sending of invoices, or copies thereof, 

 to the Analyst, apply in all cases in which it is desired to exer- 

 cise the statutory power, given by Section 3 of the. Act, of 

 obtaining an official analysis, whereas the provisions of Regula- 

 tion 6, both as to notice to the seller and as to the manner of 

 taking samples, apply only in cases in which for certain pur- 

 poses of the Act the sample is required to be taken in strict 

 accordance with the Regulations. 



It will be observed that these Regulations do not differ to 

 any great extent from the revised sampling Regulations of 

 1897. A few alterations were necessary in consequence of the 



* See Jottrnal, January, 1907, p. 604. 



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