Sept. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1747

7. The conditions imposed in the license require the detention of the dog for a period of six months on some suitable private premises to be specified by the owner and approved by the Board, where the dog will be under the supervision of the officers of the Board and of the local authority, for whose inspection it should be produced if required. But if the general conditions imposed are properly carried out, the Board are prepared, on the production of a certificate of a duly qualified veterinary surgeon that the dog is not affected with or suspected of rabies, to consider applications for the release of the dog after a period of detention of ninety days. Dogs which have been recently purchased from foreign dealers, or of which the antecedents are unknown, will be subjected to special restrictions and a longer period of detention.

8. The owner’s private place of residence is regarded in most instances as a suitable place of detention.

9. Hotels, barracks, or other similar premises, where the dog cannot be conveniently isolated, are not regarded by the Board as suitable places of detention.

10. On arrival at a port in Great Britain, and before the dog can be landed, the holder of the license is required to produce it for the inspection of the officer of Her Majesty’s Customs, who is empowered and directed to mark it with the name of the port, the date of landing, and his initials, as a verification of the legality of the landing.

11. The dog must be taken as soon as it is landed, by the nearest available route, and without unnecessary delay, to the premises specified in the license.

12. In the case, however, of dogs landed late in the day, and where the place of detention is several hours’ journey from the port, the Board do not object to the journey of the dog from one place to the other being broken by its detention at some suitable place for one night only, provided that it is kept absolutely apart from all other dogs, and that the journey is resumed the next day, and completed with all reasonable despatch.

13. In every case the license should accompany the dog on its journey, and be retained by the person in charge until it is required to be returned to the Board.

14. It should be clearly understood that the dog cannot in any case be moved from the place of detention, either to other premises or to a vessel for exportation out of the United Kingdom, without a further license from the Board; but, should exceptional circumstances arise which render such removal necessary or expedient, the Board are prepared to consider an application for a license, provided that they are satisfied by the production of a certificate of a duly qualified veterinary surgeon that the dog is not affected with or suspected of rabies. When the proposed removal is to some other place in the United Kingdom a suitable place must be specified where the dog can be kept for the remainder of the period of detention.

15. During the period of detention the dog, when temporarily moved for exercise or other like purpose from the place of detention, must be in charge of a competent person, and be properly muzzled with a wire-cage muzzle, and this latter condition is also applicable when the dog is likely at any time to be brought into contact with other dogs.

16. Should the dog die, or be lost, the fact should be at once reported to the Board, together with full information as to the symptoms preceding death, or the circumstances under which the loss took place; and, in the event of the dog sickening with any of the symptoms of rabies, it should be at once isolated, and the advice of a veterinary surgeon obtained.

17. Licenses to which special conditions are attached are issued by the Board to land bonâ fide performing dogs, if it can be shown that the dogs have been trained to take part in performances for the entertainment of the public, and that they are to be imported for that purpose only. In such cases satisfactory evidence must be offered that the animals are habitually kept absolutely apart from all other dogs, whether in this country or abroad, and a place must be specified where the dogs can be examined, if thought necessary, after being landed.

18. For the convenience of persons passing through Great Britain the Board are also prepared, in special cases, to authorise the landing of dogs which are proposed to be exported within a few days. In making an application for such a license, the ports, the names of the vessels, and the dates of arrival and departure must be specified, and the address of some suitable place where the dog can be detained during the period that it remains in Great Britain, which must not exceed ten days. The license in this case should be indorsed by an officer of the vessel of departure, and returned to the Board by the owner, and the dog must not be again landed in Great Britain without a further license.

T. H. Elliott,
Secretary.

Board of Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place,
London, S.W., February, 1899.

Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 5th September, 1899.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon. the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided to interpret the Customs and Excise Duties Acts in relation to the under-mentioned articles as follows:—

NOTE.—“Not otherwise enumerated” appears as n.o.e.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited only for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the colony” as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus * are revised decisions.

† Induction-coils were inadvertently included as Free, n.o.e., in Commissioner’s Order No. 573.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.

Commissioner’s Order No. 620.]

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 35 perches, more or less, being Lot 18, part of Rural Section 511, Town of Rangiora, having a frontage to Aquila Street of 125 links, by a depth of 176½ links. The last registered owner is Charles McGrath, described as of Rangiora, labourer, who cannot be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 4th day of September, 1899.

J. J. M. HAMILTON,
Deputy Public Trustee.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have been in communication with the supposed owner, but have not thereby ascertained who the owner certainly is, and believe that such owner is not