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Straw Packing
From Our Own Correspondent RSUVA. June 26.
ECENTLY it took the local Depart ment of Agriculture six days to destroy prohibited straw packing which had come around goods imported from India.
The danger of introduction of noxious weeds and pests has been the concern of the Department for man|y years and regulations prohibiting the straw packing were passed in 1933.
The recent Indian cargo was packed in seeded rice straw containing weed plants from Indian rice fields, and mature grain which was infested with wevils of a type so far unknown in the Colony.