File 4377/1912 'Muscat Arms Traffic: Complaints of British Firms' [‎157r] (318/430)

Dec. 24, 1908.]
THE BOARD OF TRADE JOURNAL.
609
Tariff Changes and Customs Regulations.
of Agriculture, any fertiliser or farm food, and, at the same time,
to give the brand (which must be approved by the Minister of Agri
culture) and the name and composition of such articles. Samples
of registered farm foods and fertilisers are to be analysed at least
once in every twelve months at the instance of the Government.
No person may sell any fertiliser or farm food without handing
in or forwarding at the earliest opportunity to the purchaser or his
representative an invoice stating, in prescribed form, the quantity
sold, the name and brand under w 7 hich the articles are registered,
and their component parts.
Importation of
Coffee Beans from
German East
Africa Restricted.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
The British East Africa “ Official Gazette” for 15th November last
contains a Notice dated 2nd November, 1908,
drawing attention to the provisions of the
“ Coffee Leaf Disease Ordinance ” (No. 9 of
1905), which, it is stated, will in future be
strictly enforced.
The Ordinance provides that no coffee beans shall be introduced
into the East Africa Protectorate from German East Africa for
human consumption, unless such beans have been previously
roasted, such roasting to be sufficient to prevent the germination
of the beans and to destroy any spores w'hich might carry disease.
Coffee beans may be introduced from German East Africa for
transit through the Protectorate under certain conditions relating
to packing, and on satisfactory proof that the beans will not be
sold or used as seed or otherwise in the Protectorate.
The same issue of the “ Gazette ” contains an Ordinance (No 8 of
“Tl, u + if • 1908) to make provision for maintaining and
Cotta 0 "ct ^Foving the quality of cotton in the East
ioao), Africa Protectorate.
Under the Ordinance the Governor is em
powered to make rules for maintaining or improving the quality
of cotton in the Protectorate, or to be exported therefrom, either in
reference to the distribution and use of seed or the inspection of
seed, crops, cotton unginned or ginned, or ginneries or factories, and
may prohibit the use and importation of seeds of any particular
kind, or specify any particular kind of seeds that may be used.
The exportation of inferior cotton or cotton of any particular kind
may be prohibited, and any particular kind or kinds may be
specified as the only cotton to be exported. Any methods of
sowing, collecting, ginning, baling or otherwise preparing cotton
may be regulated or prohibited, and the destruction of any
diseased cotton on the lands with or without compensation to the
owner may be required.