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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 154

REGULATIONS.

GRAPES may be introduced into New Zealand from the United States of America or from the Dominion of Canada provided that every shipment of grapes must be accompanied by a certificate as set out in form No. 1 of the Schedule hereto, signed by the shipper, setting forth the number and kind of packages, the shipping marks, the name of the grower of such grapes, the locality, and the State or Province where such grapes were grown, and certifying that no phylloxera is known to exist in or within one mile of the vineyard where such grapes were grown, that no grape-vine foliage or wood is attached to such grapes, that no grapes from any other vineyard than the one specified as aforesaid have been mixed with the consignment, and that such grapes are contained in clean new packages not previously used for any purpose; also by a certificate, as set out in form No. 2 of the Schedule hereto, signed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture in the State or Province where such grapes were grown, certifying that such grapes are clean and free from disease, that no phylloxera is known to exist in or within one mile of the vineyard where such grapes are certified by the shipper to have been grown, and that no grape-vine foliage or wood is attached to such grapes.

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SCHEDULE.
(Form No. 1.)

The Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908.
(New Zealand.)

SHIPPER’S CERTIFICATE TO ACCOMPANY GRAPES FROM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR CANADA TO NEW ZEALAND.

I, [Full name and address of shipper], hereby certify that the consignment [Here state number and kind of packages] of grapes marked [State shipping marks], consigned by [Name and address of consignor] to [Name and address of consignee] per [Name of vessel], are grapes which were grown in the vineyard of [State name of occupier] at [State locality] in the [Here insert “State” or “Province”] of ; that no phylloxera is known to exist in or within one mile of the vineyard where such grapes were grown, that no grape-vine foliage or wood is attached to such grapes, that no grapes from any other vineyard than the one specified as aforesaid have been mixed with the consignment, and that such grapes are contained in clean new packages not previously used for any purpose.

Date: .
[Signature.]

(Form No. 2.)

INSPECTOR’S CERTIFICATE TO ACCOMPANY GRAPES FROM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR CANADA TO NEW ZEALAND.

I HEREBY certify that I have duly inspected the above-mentioned grapes, and have found them to be, to the best of my knowledge, clean and free from disease.

I also certify that no phylloxera is known to exist in or within one mile of the vineyard where such grapes are certified to have been grown, and that no grape-vine foliage or wood is attached to such grapes.

Dated at this day of , 191 .
[Signature of officer of Department of Agriculture.]
[Official designation.]
[Address.]

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations as to the Grading of Fruit-trees for Sale from Nurseries.—Notice No. 1945.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this eighteenth day of November, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section twenty of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, and by subsection two of section four of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Amendment Act, 1914, that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations, inter alia, providing for the grading of fruit-trees and other trees intended for sale from nurseries, and prescribing conditions in respect of the sale of such trees:

And whereas it is expedient to make regulations providing for the grading of fruit-trees for sale from nurseries;

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him as aforesaid, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATIONS.

1. For the purposes of these regulations—
   “Diameter” means the diameter measured 2 in. above the union:
   “Fruit-tree” means any variety of apple, pear, apricot, peach, or nectarine:
   “Nursery” means any land which is used for the raising or growing of any fruit-trees, if such fruit-trees or any of them are intended for sale for replanting:
   “Sale” or “sell” includes barter, and also includes offering or attempting to sell or exposing for sale, or sending or delivering for sale, or causing or allowing to be sold, offered, or exposed for sale.

2. No fruit-tree shall be sold from any nursery until such fruit-tree has been graded in accordance with these regulations by or on behalf of the occupier of such nursery, and in the case of apple or pear trees no such sale shall be made unless it is solely in accordance with the grade assigned to such apple or pear trees as the result of such grading.

3. The following are the standards for the grading of apple or pear trees:—
   (1.) A (or Commercial) Grade shall include every tree whose diameter is not less than 7/16ths of an inch nor more than 10/16ths of an inch.
   B (or Nursery) Grade shall include every tree whose diameter is less than 7/16ths of an inch.
   C (or Special) Grade shall include every tree whose diameter is more than 10/16ths of an inch.
   (2.) Apple or pear trees of all grades shall be well rooted, and, if branched, shall be of fair shape, and shall have not less than three branches averaging 18 in. in length.

4. The following are the standards for the grading of apricot, peach, or nectarine trees:—
   (1.) Every graded tree shall have a diameter of not less than 8/16ths of an inch.
   (2.) Every graded tree shall be well rooted and branched, and of fair shape.

5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these regulations, a margin of error in grading shall be allowed; provided that in no consignment of fruit-trees forwarded from a nursery shall there be more than five per centum, by numbers, erroneously graded; and provided further that no error in diameter shall exceed 1/16th of an inch.

6. Any occupier of a nursery who sells or allows to be sold from such nursery—
   (a.) Any fruit-tree that has not been graded by himself or on his behalf in accordance with these regulations; or
   (b.) Any apple or pear tree not sold solely in accordance with the grade so assigned to it—
   commits a breach of these regulations.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Osborne Street, in the Borough of Newmarket, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this eleventh day of November, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in any case where the local authority having control of any road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor-General in Council:

And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, and clause (b)