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Official Notices and Circulars. [June, 



The Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Ceratitis capitata, Wiedemann). 

 The Colorado Beetle (Doryphora decemlineata, Say). 

 The Large Larch Sawfly (Nematus erichsonii, Hartig). 

 The Potato Moth (IJta solanella, Boisduval). 

 The Gipsy Moth (Liparis [Ocneria] dispar, Linne). 

 The Brown Tail Moth (Euproctis chrysorrhcea, Linne). 

 The Nun Moth (Liparis monacha, Linne). 

 The Cherry Fly (Khagoletis cerasi, Linne). 

 The Narcissus Fly (Merodon equestris, Fabricius). 

 Black Knot (Plowrightia morbosa, Saccardo). 



Wart Disease or Black Scab of Potatoes (Synchitrium endobioticum 

 Percival). 



Tomato Leaf Spot (Septoria lycopersici, Spegazzini). 

 Melon or Cucumber Canker (Mycosphcerella citrullina, Grossen- 

 bacher). 



American Pear Blight (Micrococcus amylovorus, Burrell). 



The following Circular letter, dated April 18th, 19 10, has been 

 addressed by the Local Government Board to Union Assessment Com- 

 mittees on the subject of the assessment of 

 Assessment Of woodlands (see Leaflet No. 8) : — 

 Woodlands. Sir, — I am directed by the Local Govern- 



ment Board to inform you that it has been 

 represented to the Board by a Committee appointed at the British Timber 

 Conference held in London last year, that Union Assessment Committees 

 throughout England have generally failed "to properly appreciate and 

 act upon the provisions of the Rating Act, 1874," in regard to the 

 assessment of woodlands. 



The Committee urge the Board to communicate with Assessment 

 Committees and to point out that woodlands should be assessed at their 

 "unimproved" value which is practically "prairie" value. They state 

 that though "prairie" value represents on the average about half-a- 

 crown per annum per acre, yet many of the woodlands of England are 

 rated at figures four and five times greater. 



The Committee state further that they are aware that an occupier of 

 woodlands who is over-assessed can obtain redress by an appeal to 

 Special or Quarter Sessions, but that the costs of such an appeal are 

 out of all proportion to the saving of rates effected by a successful 

 appeal, and consequently the illegal over-assessments remain, and the 

 benefits of the Rating Act of 1874, so necessary for the promotion and 

 encouragement of Afforestation, do not in fact reach the occupier of 

 woodlands. 



The Board have no jurisdiction to lay down any rules for the guidance 

 of Assessment Committees in the matter, but in view of the repre- 

 sentations which have been made to them, they desire to call the 

 attention of the Assessment Committee to the following observations 

 upon the provisions of the Act of 1874 contained in the Circular addressed 

 to Assessment Committees on the 24th November, 1874. 



The Act classifies woodland under three heads, viz. : — 



(1) Land used only as a plantation or a wood. 



(2) Land used for the growth of saleable underwood. 



