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can report promptly to the research officers the 
appearance of new pests. Thus protection is afforded 
against indigenous pests. The Enactment also gives 
the Chief Secretary to Government power to make 
rules requiring the notification to Inspecting Officers 
of any pest likely to assume dangerous proportions. 
It further empowers the Chief Secretary to make 
rules regulating the importation of plants from 
outside the country, and thus affords protection 
from introduced pests. 
In Johore, a similar Enactment was passed in 1914. 
This is now replaced by a revised Enactment of 1921. 
In the Straits Settlements, The Agricultural Pests 
Ordinance No. 166 is very similar to the Federated 
Malay States Enactment. 
The Inspecting Officers in the Federated Malay 
States also administer the Water Hyacinth Enact- 
ment, No. 17 of 1917, which provides for the des- 
truction of this noxious weed by the owner of the 
land on which it is growing, or in the event of his 
failure to do this, by an Inspecting Officer at the 
owner's expense. 
Rules under these laws require the notification to 
the nearest Assistant Inspector, or to the Chief 
Agricultural Inspector, of the following pests: — 
Brachartona catoxantha, Hamps., (Syn. Artona 
catoxantha, Hamps.), a caterpillar attacking 
the leaves of coconuts. 
Pink Disease of Rubber ( Corticium salmoni- 
color, B. and Br.). 
Mouldy Rot of Rubber ( Sphaeronema sp.). 
Black Stripe of Rubber ( Phytophthora sp.). 
Further rules lay down the conditions under which 
sugar-cane and cotton may be imported into the 
