Dec. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3007

ADMIRALTY PUBLICATIONS.

NEW EDITION OF PACIFIC ISLANDS PILOT, VOL. I.

A fifth edition of Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. I, dated 27th April, 1921, has been published.

The following Admiralty Notices to Mariners issued since going to Press affect this book: Nos. 824, 841, 859, 1098, 1099, 1129, 1308, 1349, 1361, 1462, 1636, and 1784, of 1921.

Regulations governing the Importation of Plants, Seeds, &c., into England and Wales.—Notice No. 2120.

Department of Agriculture,

Wellington, 20th December, 1921.

THE following information regarding regulations governing the importation of plants, seeds, &c., into England and Wales is published for general information.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.-DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS AND PESTS ORDER OF 1921.

THE Destructive Insects and Pests Order of 1921, which comes into force on the 1st October, 1921, prohibits the landing in England and Wales, from any country other than Scotland, Ireland, and the Channel Islands, of the following categories of plants, seeds, &c., unless each package in the consignment has attached thereto a copy of a certificate issued at the time of packing by a duly authorized official of the country from which it is exported:—

All living plants with a persistent woody stem above ground, and parts of the same, except seeds, when for use in propagation, such as fruit trees, stocks and stools, forest trees, and ornamental shrubs, and grafts, layers, and cuttings thereof; all potatoes, and all tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, corms, and hop stocks for planting; seeds of onions and of leeks for sowing; and gooseberries.

The inspection must be made not more than thirty days prior to the date of despatch, and the certificate must state that the plants, seeds, &c., are healthy as regards common pests generally and particularly the following:—

Fruit Tree Cankers (produced by Nectria ditissima Tul., or any species of Monilia).

Silver Leaf (Stereum purpureum Pers.).

Black-currant Mite (Eriophyes ribis Nal.).

Wooly Aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum Hausm.).

All scale insects (Coccidae).

Brown-tail Moth (Nygmia phaeorrhoea Dan.), (Euproctis chrysorrhoea).

Rhododendron Fly (Leptobyrsa (Stephanitis) rhododendri Horv.).

Potato Blackleg (Bacillus atrosepticus Van. Hall).

American Gooseberry-mildew (_Sphaerotheca morsuve Berk.).

And also that they are free from the insects and pests specified below: —

FUNGI.

Black-knot of Plum and Cherry (_Plowrightia morbosa Sacc.).

Pear-blight (Bacillus amylovorus De Toui).

Chestnut Canker (Endothia parasitica (Murr.) Ander and Ander).

Wart-disease of Potatoes (Synchytrium endobioticum).

Onion and Leek Smut (Urocystis cepulae Frost).

Downy Mildew of Hops (_Peronoplasmopara humuli, Miy, &c., Taka).

INSECTS.

Vine-louse (Phylloxera vastatrix Planch).

American Apple-capsids (Heterocordylus malimus Reut. and Lygidea mendax Reut.).

Pear Tingid (Stephanitis pyri, Fab.).

Colorado Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say.).

Plum Curculio (Conotrachelus nenaphar Herbst.).

Potato-moth (Phthorimaea operculella Zell.).

American Luckey-moths (Malacosma americana Fab. and M. diastri Hubn.).

Oriental Fruit-moth (Cydia molesta Busck.).

San Jose Scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus Comst.).

Japanese Fruit-scale (Diaspis pentagona Newst.).

Apple Fruit-fly (Rhagoletis pomonella Welsh).

Cherry Fruit-flies (Rhagoletis cerasi Linn., R. cingulata Loew, and R. fausta Osten Saken).

Gooseberry Fruit-fly (Epochra canadensis Loew.).

Procedure to be followed by Consignors.

Persons sending to England and Wales consignments including any of the categories indicated in the first paragraph should take steps to ensure the inspection of the consignment by a duly authorized Government official, and obtain from him a certificate in the following terms:—

Specimen Certificate.

CERTIFICATE OF EXAMINATION OF PLANTS, ETC.

No.

THIS is to certify that the stock included in the package or consignment described below was thoroughly inspected by , an Inspector of , on ; the stock was grown by at , and was found or believed by the Inspector to be healthy and free from any of the plant diseases or pests named in the Second Schedule to the above order.

(Signed)

(Official status)

Number and description of packages in consignment:

Distinguishing marks:

Nature of contents:

Name and address of exporter:

Name and address of consignee:

Name of vessel:

Port of shipment:

Port of landing in England and Wales:

Approximate date of arrival:

This certificate should be forwarded to the Horticulture Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Whitehall Place, London, S.W. 1, at the time of issue. A copy must be affixed to each package in the consignment.

As indicated above, the inspection must be made not more than thirty days before the date of despatch. The certificate itself should be forwarded to the Horticulture Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Whitehall Place, London, England. Consignor should note that consignments arriving in England and Wales without the copy certificate attached to the packages will be detained at the port of entry and will not be admitted into the country until they have been examined by an official of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and found to be healthy generally and especially free from the specified insects and pests. Consignments which are found to be unhealthy will be either disinfected, destroyed, or returned to the country of origin.

Potatoes.

In the case of potatoes, other than new potatoes (i.e., potatoes landed in England and Wales on or before the 31st day of July in the year in which they have been lifted), the certificate must also declare that wart-disease has not occurred on the place where the potatoes were grown nor within 500 yards thereof (approximately half a kilometre). New potatoes must be accompanied by a declaration in writing by the exporter stating that they have been lifted in the current year.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, Part II, Unclaimed Lands.

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of Part II of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (relating to unclaimed lands), made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder, and the whereabouts of the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 66 of that Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of that Act pertinent hereto: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained the whereabouts of the owner, and believe that such owner or an agent of such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908; the value of the land for the purposes of section 67 (d) of the said Act being less than one hundred pounds.

Dated at Wellington this 21st day of December, 1921.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

1. ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being Allotment No. 37, Town of Harapepe, Parish of Pirongia, County of Rutland. Bounded on the north-east by Allotment No. 33, 200 links; on the south-east by a street 200 links wide, 500 links; on the south-west by a street 100 links wide, 200 links; and on the north-west by Allotment No 38, 500 links.

2. All that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being Allotment No. 38, Town of Harapepe, Parish of Pirongia, County of Rutland. Bounded on the north-east by Allotment No. 34, 200 links; on the south-east by Allotment No. 37, 500 links; on the south-west by a street 100 links wide, 200 links; and on the north-west by Allotments Nos. 39, 40A, and 39A, 500 links.