Oct. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1927

during the preceding three months, the Board can only
authorise its landing under a license, Form A, requiring the
detention and isolation of the dog for six months. Such
licenses are only issued where arrangements have previously
been made for the detention of the dog for that period at an
isolation station approved by the Board, at the expense of
the owner, and at his risk. At the present time the only
isolation station so approved is the Dog Sanatorium, Bed-
dington Lane, Mitcham, Surrey, to the manager of which
establishment communications respecting terms, &c., should
be addressed.

7. Dogs landed with licenses, Form A, should be for-
   warded in crates or hampers, and with the utmost possible
   expedition, to the isolation station.

8. If, however, the applicant is able to declare that the
   dog has been in his personal charge for three months, he
   may apply for a license, Form B, which requires the deten-
   tion of the dog for a period of six months on some suitable
   private premises, to be specified by the applicant and ap-
   proved by the Board, where the dog will be under the super-
   vision of the officers of the Board and of the local authority,
   for whose inspection it should be produced when required.
   If, however, 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
   ninety days.

9. The applicant’s private place of residence is regarded in
   most instances as a suitable place of detention for a dog
   detained under a license, Form B, provided that he is the
   householder, and that no other dogs are kept upon the pre-
   mises. Hotels, flats, lodgings, barracks, or other similar
   premises where the dog cannot be conveniently isolated, or
   where the owner of the dog cannot guarantee that the animal
   can be detained for the full period required by the Board,
   are not regarded as suitable places of detention. For a
   similar reason private residences are seldom suitable where
   more than one dog is to be imported. If the applicant has
   no fixed residence where the dog can be kept under his own
   charge, arrangements should be made for the detention of
   the dog for the necessary period at an isolation station, or on
   the premises of an experienced veterinary surgeon.

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.

11. The license requires the dog, when landed, to be taken
    by the nearest available route, and without unnecessary
    delay, to the premises specified therein, and the arrival of
    the dog there must at once be notified in writing to the
    Board.

12. Where, however, dogs admitted under a license,
    Form B, are landed late in the day, and the place of deten-
    tion is distant from the port, the Board do not object to the
    journey of the dog being broken by its detention at some
    suitable place for one night, provided that it is kept apart
    from all other dogs, and that the journey is thereafter com-
    pleted with reasonable despatch.

13. The license should be retained by the person in charge
    of the dog, who is responsible for compliance with the con-
    ditions prescribed in the license. The license must be re-
    turned to the Board at the end of the period of detention, or
    at once if it is not made use of.

14. The dog cannot in any case be moved from the place
    of detention to other premises in the United Kingdom with-
    out a further license from the Board. Where the Board are
    satisfied that exceptional circumstances have arisen which
    render the removal of a dog detained under a license,
    Form B, necessary or expedient, they are prepared to con-
    sider an application for a removal license, provided it is not
    proposed to remove the dog from a rural to an urban dis-
    trict, or from the original premises to a less suitable place
    of detention. Unless the dog is to be taken from the private
    residence of the owner to another house in his occupation,
    the premises of an experienced veterinary surgeon should be
    specified as the place of detention, and the removal cannot
    be authorised unless the dog can be detained at the second
    address for the remainder of the period of detention.

15. Where satisfactory arrangements of the character
    above indicated cannot be made by the owner, the dog must
    be detained at the premises first specified, or removed to
    such place as the Board may direct.

16. During the period of detention under a license,
    Form B, the dog, when temporarily moved for exercise as
    provided in the license, must be properly muzzled with a
    wire-cage muzzle, and in charge of a competent person, and
    the former condition is also applicable when the dog is likely
    at any time to be brought into contact with other dogs.

17. Should a dog die, or be lost, whilst under detention,
    the fact should be at once reported to the Board, together
    with full information as to the symptoms preceding death,
    or the circumstances in which the loss took place. 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.

18. A dog detained under a license of the Board cannot be
    moved to a vessel for exportation without a further license
    of the Board.

19. Licenses are issued by the Board to land performing
    dogs, if it can be shown that the dogs have been trained to
    take part in peformances for the entertainment of the pub-
    lic, and that they are to be imported for that purpose only,
    and that they are under an actual engagement to perform
    immediately on arrival. These licenses require that during
    a period of ninety days dogs so admitted shall be isolated
    from contact with all other dogs, that they shall not be
    taken into any public place unless properly muzzled in the
    manner set out in the license, and that during that period
    the Board shall at all times be kept informed of the premises
    upon which the dogs are detained. Satisfactory evidence
    must also be afforded that the animals are habitually kept
    apart from all other dogs, whether in this country or abroad.

20. For the convenience of persons passing through Great
    Britain the Board are prepared, in special cases, to issue
    licenses for the landing of dogs to be exported within a very
    few days. Application for such licenses should specify the
    ports, the names of the vessels, the dates of their arrival
    and departure, and the address of some suitable place where
    the dog can be detained during the period that it remains in
    Great Britain. The license in this case should be indorsed
    by an officer of the vessel of departure, and returned to the
    Board by the owner. The dog cannot again be landed in
    Great Britain without a further license.

21. The experience of the Board has clearly shown that
    the frequent movement of pet dogs to and from the Con-
    tinent involves this country in serious danger, inasmuch as
    a pet dog may become infected with rabies without the
    knowledge and despite the utmost care on the part of its
    owner. It is therefore a matter of great importance to
    owners of dogs in Great Britain that dogs from abroad
    should only be admitted in instances where it has been satis-
    factorily established that some useful purpose will be served
    by their admission, or where a pet dog would otherwise be
    separated from its owner for a prolonged period. Pet dogs
    should not be taken abroad and thus exposed to the risk of
    infection, except in cases of real necessity.

22. The Board earnestly invite the cordial co-operation of
    dog-owners in carrying out regulations which have been
    designed with a view to minimise the risk of reintroducing
    a very terrible disease.

T. H. ELLIOTT,
Secretary.

Board of Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place,
London, S.W., 8th August, 1900.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this
purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation
Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do
hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned ware-
house to be a warehouse or place of security for the manu-
facture therein of perfumery and other articles in which
spirit is a necessary ingredient, namely,—

Port of Napier.

Portion of a wooden building situated at the corner of
Shakespeare and Battery Roads, Napier, to be known as

PLOWMAN’S MANUFACTURING BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of October, one thousand nine hundred.

R. J. SEDDON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 646.]

Notice of Intention to take Land in Mangapuaka Block for
a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to
execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a
road, and for the purposes of such public work the land
described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken;
and notice is further given that the plan of the land so
required to be taken is deposited at the Mangatoro Valley
Post-office, and is there open for inspection. And notice is
hereby given that all persons affected by the taking of the
said land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections
to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing,
and send such writing, within forty days from the first pub-
lication of this notice, to the Minister of Lands, Wellington