1936] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 123 
Additional certificate for potatoes 
Further, it is hereby certified that no case of the disease known as potato 
wart, Synchytrium endohioticum (Schilb.) Perc. has occurred on the farm or 
holding where the potatoes included in this consignment were grown, nor 
within 500 yards (approximately 0.5 km) thereof. 
Signed 
Official title 
Description of shipment 
(To be supplied by the shipper) 
Number and description of packages 
Marks 
Description of plants 
Grown at 
Name and address of exporter 
Name and address of consignee 
Name of vessel 
Date of shipment 
Port of shipment 
Port of landing in the Irish Free State 
Approximate date of landing 
Signed 
(Shipper's signature) 
(b) Any imported plants which on inspection are found to be unhealthy or 
attacked by any insect or pest mentioned in the second schedule, and which, in 
the judgment of the inspector or other authorized person, cannot be cleaned 
by disinfection or other treatment shall, with packing and package, either be 
destroyed or returned to the country of exportation by the importer. 
Special Quarantines 
importation prohibited of potatoes and gooseberry and currant bushes, except 
under license and inspection certificate 
Prior to the promulgation of the order of 1922, the landing in Ireland of 
potatoes or of gooseberry or currant bushes was prohibited, save in cases in 
which the consignee in Ireland obtained a license from the Department au- 
thorizing the landing of the consignment. This restriction applied to the im- 
portation of such plants from Great Britain, as well as from other countries, 
and has been continued in force under the order of 1922, so far as relates to any 
part of Ireland within the jurisdiction of the Irish Free State Government. 
The Department has issued a general license permitting the importation of 
"new" potatoes; that is, potatoes landed before May 16 of the year in which 
they were lifted. Consequently, the consignee is not required at present to 
obtain a license for the importation of such potatoes, but if imported from 
places outside of Great Britain and the Channel Islands these potatoes must be 
accompanied by the certificate required under the order. As regards all other 
potatoes, as well as gooseberry and currant bushes, not only must the con- 
signments be accompanied by the prescribed certificate, but the consignee must 
obtain beforehand a license from the Department in respect of each consign- 
ment, authorizing its importation. Exporters, therefore, are advised not to 
forward potatoes, with the exception above referred to, or gooseberry or cur- 
rant bushes, to any part of Ireland within the jurisdiction of the Irish Free 
State Government, without first assuring themselves that the requisite license 
has been obtained by the consignee. 
GRADE CERTIFICATE MUST ACCOMPANY RAW APPLES GROWN IN THE UNITED STATES 
OF AMERICA 
[Importation of Raw Apples Order of Aug. 23, 1930] 
To prevent the introduction of the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella Walsh, 
the importation into the Irish Free State between July 7 and November 15 
of each year, of any raw apples grown in the United States of America is hereby 
prohibited unless each consignment is accompanied by a certificate signed by a 
