MEMORANDUM 
Plant Impor tation Into the Strait# Settlements 
1. With reference to the preceeding minutes, 1 would point 
out that the Director of Cardens in hie minute of 31.X.22 quotes 
the regulations regarding the Asportation of ruooer inaccurately. 
Gazette Notification No. ?8 of September 30th. 1921 read in 
conjunction with the "Agricultural Pests Rules 1919 Amended Ruler 
1920" (Gazette Notification No. 261 of June II, 1920) shows that 
the importation of any plant of Para Rubber, including any species 
of Hevea, is prohibited without the written permission of ‘he 
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Director and then only subject to the conditions laid t»wn by hist 
2 The Director of Gardens has oh! ttad the *estriction on 
the importation of Sugar-cane* Gaze e Koti fi cc tier No* 1495 of 
August 27til. 1921. 
3 # Throughout the correspondence there is a con^plete xaiscon* 
caption of the!a Department 1 » intention with regard to the 
inportation of plants lively to prove dangerous to plants, 
cultivated or liable to be cultivated, in this country. 
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intention was that the Director*a permit to import should be J 
obtained previous to the shipment from the country of 
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origin by the exporter or the Importer^ not that i w should 
obtained on arrival at the poet of entry. Thus the Director ooul ; 
refuse the permit owing to an objection to thecountry oc origin 
or state in advance the conditions of entry. The Director of 
Gardens and the Under Secretary obviously contemplate the granting 
of a permit of entry of arrival of the plants at a port, provided 
they apnear healthy on examination by an Inspector, The remark 
of the Under Secretary in hi3 minute of 15.1.22 clearly shows 
this. As the law stands written permission of the Director of 
Agrioulfcure is required for the iaqport of rubber plants and the 
notification you refer to only deals with rubber. An Assistant 
Agricultural Inspector at Penang will not help oecause his 
written permission is of H no value 11 . See also the Director of 
Gardens 1 (l) para. 4. "He will admit, rei^se admittance or 
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