1 Jan., 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, 
Public Announcements. 
Tur Editor will be glad to receive any papers of special merit which may 
be read at meetings of Agricultural and Pastoral Associations in Queensland, 
reserving, however, the right to decide whether their value and importance 
will justify their publication. 
Tun Queensland Agricultural Journal will be sent free of cost to all 
agricultural societies, schools of art, local libraries, and country newspapers 
in the colony, and to agricultural newspapers and institutions of importance 
in other portions of the world. Secretaries of agricultural, horticultural, 
pastoral, and kindred societies in Queensland are invited to furnish the 
Department of Agriculture with information as to their respective membership 
in order that the necessary number of copies of the Journal may be supplied. 
PLANTS AND SEEDS FOR DISTRIBUTION. 
*“LOGWOOD. 
Titn Curator of the Brisbane Botanic Garden states that there will be an 
unusually large quantity of Logwood seed for distribution in about a month, 
and algo that a large number of young, healthy, and clean seedling trees 
will be available for distribution in May next to persons desirous of planting 
good and new varieties of this valuable dye- wood. 
“THE DISEASES IN PLANTS ACT OF 1896.” 
Ms Department of Agriculture, 
Lrisbane, 11th September, 1897. 
I§ Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance 
of the provisions of “ 7’e Diseases in L'lants Act of 1896,’ has been pleased to make 
the following Regulations. 
J. F. G. FOXTON. 
REGULATIONS. 
Interpretation. 
1. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms shall 
have and include the meanings set against them respectively, that is to say :— 
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«Minister ”—The Secretary for Agriculture or other Minister for the time being charged 
with the administration of the Act ; 
“ Inspector ”—Any Inspector appointed under the Act ; 
“Place of Entry ”—Brisbane, Cairns, and such other place as may be appointed by the 
Minister ;— 
and words importing the singular number shall include the plural, and words importing the 
plural shall include the singular, and words importing the masculine gender shall include females. 
Importations prohibited. 
2. The importation is hereby prohibited of all trees, plants, or portion thereof, including 
fruit or seeds (other than those manufactured) from Ceylon, India, Mast Indies, East African 
Colonies, and all other countries in which the coffee leat disease (Hemeleia vastatrix) is known 
to exist. Provided always that the Minister may, at his discretion, import from any of such 
countries coffee seed and trees, plants, vegetables, or portions thereof, all of which shall, when so 
imported, be suitably disinfected and detained, and grown in close quarantine for not less than 
twelve calendar months. 
