Sept. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1537

The Law Officers of the Crown having recently reported that, where an Imperial Act has expressly defined the boundaries of a colony, or has bestowed a Constitution on a colony within certain boundaries, territory cannot be annexed to that colony so as to be completely fused with it—as, e.g., by being included in a province or electoral division of it—without statutory authority, it followed that certain annexations of territory to colonies falling within the above category which had been effected by Order in Council and Letters Patent, accompanied by Acts of the Colonial Legislatures, were of doubtful validity, and this Act has been passed to validate these annexations, and to remove all doubts as to Her Majesty's powers in future cases.

I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

CHAPTER 34.

An Act to provide in certain Cases for the Alteration of the Boundaries of Colonies.
[6th July, 1895.]

Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1.) Where the boundaries of a colony have, either before or after the passing of this Act, been altered by Her Majesty the Queen by Order in Council or Letters Patent the boundaries as so altered shall be, and be deemed to have been from the date of the alteration, the boundaries of the colony.

(2.) Provided that the consent of a self-governing colony shall be required for the alteration of the boundaries thereof.

(3.) In this Act "self-governing colony" means any of the colonies specified in the Schedule to this Act.

2. This Act may be cited as "The Colonial Boundaries Act, 1895."

Schedule.—Self-governing Colonies.

Canada, Newfoundland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Cape of Good Hope, Natal.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer:—

C Battery, New Zealand Regiment Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Alfred Chevalier Parker. Date of resignation, 13th August, 1895.

R. J. SEDDON.

Issue of Imperial Volunteer Officers' Decoration.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the issue of the Imperial Volunteer Officers' Decoration to

Lieutenant-Colonel ALEXANDER CROWE,
Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers, he having a total continuous efficient commissioned and rank service to the 31st December, 1888, of 20 years 109 days.

R. J. SEDDON.

Dismissal of Volunteers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the dismissal of the under-mentioned men of the Avondale Rifle Volunteers (Auckland) from the New Zealand Volunteer Force for neglect of duty, under sections 46 and 50, "Defence Act, 1886," and paragraph 210, Volunteer Regulations, 1895. Dismissal to date from the 14th August, 1895:—

No. 12, Private A. Atwood,
No. 48, " H. T. Dell,
No. 43, " John Clark,
No. 6, " J. W. Möller,
No. 13, " John Ryan,
No. 28, " W. C. Thompson,
No. 31, " W. H. Young.

R. J. SEDDON.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road in Maniototo County.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under the provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1894," for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in Maniototo County: And notice is further given that the plan of the said land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post Office, Kyeburn, and is there open for inspection, and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objection to the execution of the said public work, or to the taking of such land, set forth such objection in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Otago; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17542, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

Drawing Attention to Provisions regarding the Export of Butter and Cheese.—Notice No. 425.

"THE DAIRY INDUSTRY ACT, 1894."—NOTICE TO EXPORTERS OF BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Department of Agriculture (Dairying Service),
Wellington, 23rd September, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the undernoted subsections of section 21 of the above-mentioned Act are now in force:—

(1.) (a.) Every person exporting butter shall have such butter placed in the cool-store proclaimed by the Governor, at least four clear days prior to shipment, for the purpose of being cooled or frozen. The ports of shipment to be Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers, and such others as the Governor may from time to time proclaim by Order in Council.

(c.) On the despatch of any butter or cheese to a cool-store, the sender thereof shall immediately post notice thereof to the officer in charge of the cool-store, giving full particulars of the number of kegs, boxes, or packages, as the case may be, together with the stamps or marks and weights of each keg, box, or package.

(2.) The Governor may appoint persons who—

(a.) Shall, prior to shipment, inspect and grade each lot of butter, and shall stamp or mark each keg, box, or package with the official stamp or mark and the figure denoting the grade;

(d.) Shall, prior to shipment, inspect and grade each lot of cheese, and shall stamp or mark each cheese found to be of inferior quality, and each keg, box, or package containing such cheese, with the official stamp or mark and the figure denoting the grade.

The official stamp is ▲, and the grade-marks 1 for first grade, 2 for second grade, and 3 for third grade.

(3.) That on every keg, box, or package containing butter or cheese, and on every cheese in each lot, the date or dates on which such butter or cheese was manufactured, and the number of the churning or vat, as the case may be, shall be legibly stamped or marked. The date or dates and number as required by this subsection may be removed after grading.

For the purpose of inspecting and grading the quality of any butter or cheese, the grader may open and sample any one or more kegs, boxes, or packages of each lot of such