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BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE 
(Jan -Mar. 
Bananas and tomatoes from Palestine: Certificate of competent authority in 
prescribed form attesting fumigation. 
Fresh fruits and vegetables in the raw state. 
Trees and plants, and every living part thereof, including seeds. 
Flowers, cut or otherwise. 
Dried plants and flowers. 
Staves which have been used as grapevine props or for similar purposes. 
Binding that has been used for grapevines or other plants. 
Earth and gravel, leaf and garden mold. 
Animal and vegetable manures, except guano, bone meal and other fossil or 
chemically prepared manures: Must be imported directly from any place named 
in article 1 and must be accompanied by a certificate of competent "authority in 
the form prescribed in article 2 (1) (a). (Order-in-Council No. 1421 of Apr. 23, 
1931.) 
Importation unrestricted 
Cereals and all dry seeds, except cottonseed, free from husk, straw, and earth; 
acorns and valonia. 
Almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, and other nuts, including ground nuts, free from 
outer husks, leaves, stalks, and branches. 
Preserves, crystallized fruits, bottled and canned fruits, and vegetables her- 
metically sealed in proper receptacles. 
Flour and meal of all kinds and preparations thereof. 
Tamarind; saponaria wood. 
Vegetables desiccated by artificial heat and inclosed in packages. 
Dry and aromatic plants used for medicinal purposes and for dyeing, if free 
from earth. 
Dried fruits and vegetables; carobs, if free from earth. (Order-in-Council No. 
1421 of Apr. 23, 1931.) 
RESTRICTIONS ON THE IMPORTATION OF COTTON 
(Order-in-Council No. 1054 of May 13, 1925) 
Article 1. This order is cited as the Importation of Cotton Order, 1925. 
Art. 2. (a) Raw cotton, cottonseed, seed cotton, any living or dry part of the 
cotton plant, and packing material which has or is suspected of having been used 
in the transportation or storage thereof, may be imported into Cyprus directly or 
indirectly from the American Continent (including Canada, the United States, 
South America, and The West Indies), China, Cochin-China, Greece, India, 
Turkestan, Turkey, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and any country not 
possessing a government entomological service, under the following conditions: 
(1) Through the port of Famagusta only; 
(2) When accompanied by a shipper's declaration in the following form: 
I, the undersigned, , member of the firm of , consigner of 
cases of , each containing , and marked , to be shipped by 
S.S. , from (port of departure) , to (port of arrival) , do 
hereby declare that the herein referred to was all grown at (locality), 
in the district of , in (country). 
(Signature) . 
Declared at , this day of , before me. 
(Name and title of officer administering oath) 
(3) Forthwith on importation they are disinfected in such a manner as the 
Director of Agriculture shall prescribe: Provided, That in lieu of disinfection the 
Director of Agriculture may order that such articles be placed in quarantine in 
such place and for such period as he shall deem fit; 
(6) If such articles have been imported from a country other than those above 
mentioned: 
(1) Importation takes place through the port of Famagusta; 
(2) Each shipment must be accompanied by a shipper's declaration in the form 
set forth above. 
Art. 3. Provides for an importer's notice of arrival for any article it is desired 
to import under the provisions of article 2 (a). 
Art. 4. Any article offered for importation under the provisions of article 2 
(a) shall be completely inclosed within stout packing material. The package 
shall be clearly labeled on the outside with identification marks, the name of the 
article contained, and the country of origin, and such packages shall be opened 
