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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

Officer dismissed.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to dismiss from the public service of the colony

WILLIAM GILLESPIE,

late a clerk in the Post and Telegraph Office at Palmerston North.

W. C. WALKER,
For the Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

Officer dismissed.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to dismiss from the public service

JOHN McCONNOCHIE BROWNE,

lately a letter-carrier in the Chief Post Office at Napier.

W. C. WALKER,
For Postmaster-General.

Notice of Intention to incorporate the Mercury Bay Hospital as a Separate Institution.

Charitable Department,
Wellington, 12th July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government, in Council, directs it to be notified, in terms of section 43 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” that he has received a petition from not less than fifty subscribers to the Mercury Bay Hospital, praying that the said hospital may be incorporated as a separate institution; and that, if no counter-petition signed by an equal or greater number of subscribers shall have been delivered at the office of the Colonial Secretary within one month after the publication of this notice, or if the District Board shall not have lodged with the Colonial Secretary within the same time an objection to such petition, the Governor in Council will declare the said hospital to be a separate institution under the said Act.

W. C. WALKER.

Amended Certificate relating to Travelling-expenses.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 13th July, 1897.

THE following amended form of certificate is in future to be given on every voucher for travelling-expenses that includes sums for which receipts have not been taken, viz. :

“I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the foregoing account is true and correct in every particular; that the charges are reasonable; that I actually expended on the services named the sums included in such charges which are not supported by receipts; and that I was travelling on the public service during the period for which the claim is made.”

JOHN McKENZIE,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.

Importation of Dogs into Great Britain.—Notice No. 489.

Department of Agriculture,
(Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 13th July, 1897.

THE following order, issued by the Board of Agriculture of Great Britain, is published for general information.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

IMPORTATION OF DOGS ORDER OF 1897.

The Board of Agriculture desire to draw the attention of local authorities, shipowners, and the public generally to the provisions of this order, which regulates the landing in Great Britain of dogs brought from any other country except Ireland and the Isle of Man.

The order is made to take effect on the 15th September, 1897, and it will be observed that no dog to which the order applies will be allowed to be landed in Great Britain without a license from the Board of Agriculture obtained previous to the landing.

Special attention is drawn to the following provisions of the order :—

Applications for Licenses.

Any application for a license is to be made in writing to the Secretary, Board of Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W., and is to be accompanied by a statement signed by the owner of the dog to which the application relates or by his agent authorised in writing for this purpose, containing the following information (namely): (1) The description of the dog, stating so far as possible for purposes of identification the particulars of its breed, sex, age, and colour; (2) the country from which it is proposed to be brought; (3) the port at which it is proposed to be landed; and (4) the place to which it is proposed after being landed to be moved for the purposes of such detention and isolation as may be required by the Board, and also the route by which it is proposed to be moved to such place of detention.

Conditions of License.

The Board may insert in any license authorising the landing of a dog such conditions as they think necessary or desirable for the following purposes: (a) For prescribing and regulating the detention and isolation of the dog by and at the expense of its owner, for any period, not exceeding six months, at a place to be provided for that purpose by such owner, and to be described in the license; or (b) for regulating the movement of the dog to such place of detention, and its movement during the period of detention prescribed by the license.

A dog landed under the authority of such a license shall be detained and isolated in accordance with the conditions of such license, and shall not be moved in contravention of any such condition.

Restriction on Granting of Licenses.

An applicant for a license for the landing of a dog will be required to satisfy the Board that proper and suitable arrangements can be made for such detention and isolation of the dog as appears to the Board to be necessary or desirable.

In order that as little inconvenience as possible may be caused in the enforcement of the order, the Board trust that local authorities will assist them by taking steps to make its contents known as widely as possible in their districts. The Board would invite shipowners to co-operate with them by causing due notice to be given to passengers desirous of bringing dogs with them of the conditions under which alone dogs will be permitted to be landed in Great Britain, and with this view the Board would suggest that shipowners should instruct their agents abroad and the masters of their vessels to warn passengers, and prevent as far as possible the shipment of any dogs the owners of which may not have previously obtained the necessary license for their being landed.

T. H. ELLIOTT,
Secretary.

Board of Agriculture, May, 1897.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouses.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested, I, the Minister acting for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do by this order under my hand revoke and annul the appointment of the undermentioned warehouses for the reception and security of goods entered to be warehoused without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, namely,—

Port of Auckland.

The warehouses known as

BROWN AND CAMPBELL’S WAREHOUSES,

as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order of the 22nd day of January, 1863.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 578.]

Notification of Resignation of Seat in the House of Representatives for Electoral District of Awarua.

IN compliance with the provisions of the 135th section of “The Electoral Act, 1893,” I, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, hereby notify that the

Honourable JOSEPH GEORGE WARD

has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Awarua, and that his telegram of resignation was received by me on the 14th day of July, 1897, and the said seat is vacant by reason of such resignation.

Dated at Auckland, this 14th day of July, 1897.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE, Kt.,
Speaker,
Auckland.