THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1867.
THE following Notice to Ship Owners and Ship
Masters, with reference to the prevention of
Sea Scurvy, issued by the British Board of Trade, is
published for general information.
JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

NOTICE TO SHIP OWNERS AND SHIP MASTERS.
Sea Scurvy.
THE result of the inquiries recently instituted by the
Board of Trade in several cases of outbreak of Scurvy
in merchant ships, in some even where it is manifest
that the owners have had every desire to provide for
the health of the crew, leads this Board to believe
that the publication of the following means, suggested
by the Seamen's Hospital Society, for the prevention
and check of this malady, may be attended with
advantage:-The cause of the malady is generally
believed to be privation for a considerable length of
time of fresh vegetables.

Means for Prevention.—At Sea.

1. Every ship on a long voyage should be supplied
   with a proper quantity of lime or lemon juice.
   The juice having been received in bulk from the
   vendors, should be examined and analysed by a com-
   petent medical officer. All measures adopted for its
   preservation are worthless unless it be clearly ascer-
   tained that a pure article has been supplied.
   Ten per cent. of brandy (S.G. 930) or of rum (S.G.

890. should afterwards be added to it.
     It should be packed in jars or bottles, each con-
     taining one gallon or less, covered with a layer of oil
     and closely packed and sealed.
     Each man should have at least four ounces (8
     tablespoonful) a week, and should take it at as part
     of his daily food. The quantity should be increased
     to an ounce daily if any symptoms of scurvy manifest
     themselves.
     The giving out of lime or lemon juice should be
     commenced with the issue of salt provisions, and
     should be continued even with fresh meat in harbour
     when no green or succulent vegetables accompany it.
     It should certainly not be delayed longer than a
     fortnight after the vessel has put to sea.

2. Preserved vegetables of these potatoes and
   onions are the best; next—greens, carrots, turnips, &c.
3. A plentiful supply of good water.
4. Attention to cleanliness and ventilation, more
   particularly of the quarters of the crew.
   In Port.
   A full supply of such vegetables as may be most
   easily procured, viz., potatoes, greens, radishes, water-
   cresses; the latter vegetable is a powerful antiscor-
   butic and easily procurable. Fruits, as oranges,
   lemons, limes, shaddocks, &c.
   It is always well to provide an extra supply of the
   above mentioned important antiscorbutics, in case
   of an unusually protracted voyage or other con-
   tingency.
   Board of Trade, September, 1866.
   NOTE.—This Notice is to be kept posted inside and
   outside the Mercantile Marine Offices, Shipping
   Offices, Custom Houses, and Receivers' Offices, and
   should be freely distributed amongst owners, masters,
   shipping agents, and seamen, and other persons
   interested. Copies are to be obtained from time to
   time in the same manner as Mercantile Marine
   Forms.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 29th April, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

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HENRY SCOTT MCKELLAR, Esq.,
Acting Collector of Customs, to be Collector of
Customs at the Port of Auckland.
J. C. RICHMOND.

THE undermentioned person has been duly licensed
to act as a Custom House Agent at the Port of
Westport:
ARTHUR BEAUCHAMP.
Custom House, Wellington,
20th May, 1867.
W. SEED, Secretary.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th May, 1867.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following Name of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information :—
Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend JAMES ALFRED TAYLOR.
I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 7, of the 29th of January, No. 9, of the
11th of February, No. 12, of the 28th of February,
No. 23, of the 12th of April, and No. 29, of the 16th
of May, in the present year.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Dunedin, 1st May, 1867.
ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH, Registrar of
Joint Stock Companies for the Provinces of
Otago and Southland, do hereby certify that I have
registered a Memorandum of Association, with
Articles of Association annexed, establishing a
Company with limited liability of the shareholders
therein, intituled
"THE OAMARU LANDING SERVICE COMPANY
(LIMITED);"
the objects for which the said Company is established
being "the landing and shipping of goods and
merchandise, and the landing and embarkation of
passengers in boats, and the mooring and unmooring
of vessels, at the Port of Oamaru, and the doing of
all such other things as are incidental or conducive
to the attainment of the above objects."
And I hereby further notify that in pursuance of
"The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," I have
issued a Certificate of Incorporation of the said
Company, bearing date the first day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
A. W. SMITH,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies for Otago
and Southland.

IN the Supreme Court of New Zealand: Otago and
Southland District.
In the matter of the petition of FRANCIS MAGUIRE,
of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, debtor, and
in the matter of "The Debtors and Creditors Act,
1862," "The Debtors and Creditors Act Amend-