POTATO PROHIBITION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 601, 1 September 1909, Page 7

POTATO PROHIBITION.

ATO'RF^AINcAGAINST>NE^-ZEALAND?; ; '^^^•^•^ J^^t^^^i V ''^:v■•■^■:-^ ! /(By Press ■^Aiiiocistlop'.^oiby.rlplii'.l.v ■^■i'■:, : £i\-^yi ; r : hThO;F«leialMinister : of,,Customs' (Senator' : Sir ; has advise' , : ; where'jthey ; W;aocompanied'Jbyia certifioato r ;of'freedom; 'frotf/di&ase./v;-';;-;; :'U;; ; -v/ W^'h^C'^'i v;s?TriE \ CONFERENOE'S DEOIBIONS.'; -^ states, thai■ there is ho:d-. übt:the 1 potato disease''exists in ; i oussed by -tho recent oouferenoe.of- State' Minis- ;; ters for Agriculture,.; held in;, Melbourne. ■': -A' soriee-' of.-resolutions was : agreed/tOrTsb.,, the Victorian "Minister- for Agriculture'•;remarked subsequently—without/any'dissentient,-voices.,.: During' the.past;week br'twb a : war.of;inter- . State prohibitions has been'-''going on;' but;this,. it appears, is likely;to come to' an end.' The c6nferenoe i 'agreed -that: "no. State' shall 'nrohi-. bit :; the; importation of .fruit, :.vegetables;-;.' or 'plants''"exported-, to 1 - it' from/another.State'ciii account i of,.'any' diseaso. ■ affecting"; such: fruit,: Vegetables, or:plants/which is ; common/to both States, provided that theexporting State" has' adopted, .and .is'carrying. jut;,methods:tb:. sup-; press-or.-cope-with;such disease." ;Other.resoIntions provide;.fdr the subdivision:: of' each State/into'areas,of investigation; with;,a view to'quarantining, if found,-necessary./:; ? ''•:;./■/;/ //"The action; thus, taken, (says an Australian paper) will'nof, of/course,.'affect 1 any prohibitions that: may: now be in exstence against pota.toes ..entering v >New,'-South .Wales : or ■Victoria-' -from,Tasmania-or;elsewhere. :v But.Lit 'does point-to the, probability/of each State:getting: to"'Work; to set. its own house in order.. The bnly-'Part/of'the'-Commonwealth . not, .represented: at: the ; conference: '■ was.; Western Aus-' I .tralia,' whioh is not bound in ': any 'way' by 'the decisions"arrived, at." ,:/;/.;.l; : : :\: ..-•-..'•; ■.-,•,,. X