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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

Regulations under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1928, relating to the Sale for Consumption within the Dominion of New-Zealand-grown Fruit.— (Notice No. Ag. 3349.)

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth governing the sale for consumption within the Dominion of New-Zealand-grown fruit of the kinds mentioned herein, and doth hereby revoke, as from the coming into force of the regulations hereby made, the regulations next hereinafter referred to.

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REGULATIONS REVOKED.

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REGULATIONS.

1. PRELIMINARY.

(1) These regulations may be cited as the New-Zealand-grown Fruit (Local Sales) Regulations, 1935.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication hereof in the Gazette.

(3) In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“Approved” means approved by the Director in writing:

“Blemish” includes branch-rubs, scratches, insect bites, unnatural russeting, bruises, excrescences, sun-scalds, hail-marks, or any other injury detrimental to the appearance of fruit, but does not include spray injury or damage by leaf-roller caterpillar:

“Brand” means to stencil or imprint clearly and legibly:

“Citrus fruit” means lemons, oranges, mandarins, and grape-fruit:

“Clean” means free from dirt, dust, insect stains, spray stains, and spray residue or other foreign substance or material:

“Coloured” means any variety of lemons of an approved size picked from the tree when partially yellow or yellow in appearance, but not ripened on the tree:

“Count” means the number of fruit contained in any package:

“Cured” means any variety of lemon of an approved size picked from the tree when mature, green, or silver or coloured in appearance; coloured in an approved manner and conditioned until an appropriate refinement in thinness of skin shall be obtained:

“Director” means the Director of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture:

“Fruit” means apples, pears, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, cherries, plums, tomatoes, and citrus fruit:

“Green” means any variety of well-grown lemon of an approved size picked from the tree when the whole of the surface is green in appearance:

“Mature” means having a degree of ripeness which will ensure the proper completion of the ripening process and which is suitable for curing or marketing:

“Owner” means any owner, shipper, or consignor of fruit, and includes the agent or servant of any such owner, shipper, or consignor, and also includes, in the case of a company, the managing director, manager, director, secretary, or other principal officer of the company in New Zealand:

“Pack” means regularly and compactly to arrange fruit in a package:

“Package” means any of the types of package for fruit specified in the First Schedule hereto:

“Pick” in relation to citrus fruit means to cut from the tree by means of a sharp blunt-nosed clipper or by any other approved means and “picked” has a corresponding meaning:

“Sell” means to exchange for money or barter, and includes offering or exposing for sale, or sending or delivering for sale, or allowing to be sold or offered or exposed for sale:

“Silver” means any variety of lemon of an approved size picked from the tree when silver-green in appearance:

“Size” when used as a noun means the diameter of fruit measured from cheek to cheek at the widest part, and when used as a verb means to sort according to size:

“Spray injury” means the russeting of, or other injury to, fruit as a result of spraying:

“The said Act” means the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1928:

“Tree-ripened” means any variety of lemon picked from the tree coloured in appearance and ripened on the tree:

“Well-formed” means having the shape characteristic of the variety of the fruit in the locality where grown: