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quarantine them as necessary. 
4, 
in my opinion that written permit from the 
Director with conditions of entry attached should accompany the 
shipment. Any shipment seeking to entering without permit should 
he destroyed, I MWMMM1 explain below. 
5. 
If an Inspector grants a permit of anfcry to any 
shipment of rubber, or other restricted plant, at the port of 
entry, because it appears healthy, no account is necessarily 
taken of its counfcty of origin, and no trace is necessarily kept 
of whoe it is finally planted. This is unsafe. The shipment my 
come from a country where fyl a serious disease may be able to 
remain dormant in the plant tissues without causing definite MMik 
signs of disease. All shipments from such countries should be 
refused entry. Further, imported plants of, for example, rubber, 
are not necessarily acclamatised, or accustomed like the local 
plants to local pests. Such pests, of limited power on the local 
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plants, might vigorously attack import** plants, gain strength 
on them and become dangerous pests on looal plants. Further it is 
necessary for these reasons to keep trace of all imported plants 
and^have proper quarantine areas established by the importers, 
until they are prove healthy and normally resist/ant tp local 
p eB ts, 
6, Ur&#r these conditions the Inspector is only 
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required to examine shipments of rubber under permit, when a 
condition of entry is that they be so examined. He must examine 
shipments of sugar cane; if other $rops are included under either 
ferm of restriction, the same procedure holds. No shipment of any 
pkant included on the schedule of restricted plants should be 
allowed entry by custom Officers, if they do not comply with the j 
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conditions of entry before examination by the Inspector. Plants 
not on the schedule should pass freely. 
7. With reference to (I) 4, the Entomologist/ and 
Micologlst in the Agricultural Department being experience fcn 
economic crops and their pests, are at least as well qualified 
to advise the Director regarding the nermits of entry as the 
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Assistant Director regarding the permits of entry as the As 
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