THE FRUIT FLY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9138, 6 May 1908, Page 5

THE FRUIT FLY.

Per Press.' Association.—Copyright. Received May 6, 10.28 a.m. Sydney, May 6. A deputation of fruit-growers protested to the Minister of Agriculture against New Zealand regulations [requiring a certificate declaring that citrious fruits exported to the Dominion had not been grown within a mile of a fruit fly infested spot. The Minister stated that he had written to the New Zealand Minister of Agriculture, suggesting, that the resolutions of the Inter-State Fruit Conference might bo accepted by him, but had received no reply. While he did not, desire to make threats if the New Zealand Government were not reasonable the Government of New South Wales might try the same sort of method which it Ifad. tried successfully with Victoria. If a certificate that no fruit fly was present in the shipment was given that ought to satisfy New Zealand.