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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 50

son, on the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

2. That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £50, authorised to be raised by the Manawatu County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for construction of the Pukipuki Road—such loan to be at 4 per cent. per annum for forty-one years, and such loan being 10 per cent. additional on a loan of £500 raised under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and amendments—the said Manawatu County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1½d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Pukipuki Special-rating District, comprising Sections 8, 8A, 3A, 4, 4A, 2, 6, 7, 7A, 5, 5A, 5B, 5C, of the final subdivision of the Oroua Downs Estate, Blocks IX. and X., Te Kauwau Survey District, in the Carnarvon Riding; and that such special rate be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly, in one sum, at the County Offices, Sanson, on the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

In witness whereof the common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Manawatu was affixed, in the presence of—

JAMES G. WILSON,
Chairman.

H. HAMMOND,
Councillor.

FRED PURNELL,
Clerk.

I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of special orders passed by the Manawatu County Council at a special meeting of the Council held on the 11th May, 1904, and confirmed at a meeting of Council held on the 8th June, 1904.

FRED PURNELL,
County Clerk.

Sanson, 8th June, 1904.

Despatch.—Order in Council applying “The Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900,” to the Colony of New Zealand.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th June, 1904.

THE following despatch and enclosure, received from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.

JAS. McGOWAN.

(New Zealand.—General.)
Downing Street, 29th April, 1904.

My Lord,—With reference to my despatch, “General,” of the 16th ultimo, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Government, copies of an Order in Council applying “The Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900,” to the Colony of New Zealand in respect of Ireland and Scotland.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

Governor the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ranfurly,
G.C.M.G., &c.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of April, 1904.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,
LORD PRESIDENT, EARL OF KINTORE, SIR SAVILE CROSSLEY.

WHEREAS, by “The Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900,” it is enacted that where as respects a Superior Court in a British Possession His Majesty the King in Council is satisfied on the report of a Secretary of State;—

(a.) That the regulations respecting the admission of persons to be Solicitors of that Superior Court are such as to secure that those Solicitors possess proper qualifications and competency; and

(b.) That by the law of the British Possession the Solicitors of the Supreme Court will be admitted to be Solicitors of the Superior Court in the Possession on terms as favourable as those on which it is proposed to admit Solicitors of that Superior Court, in pursuance of the said Act, to be Solicitors of the Supreme Court;—

His Majesty in Council may order that the said Act shall apply and the same shall accordingly apply to the said Superior Court and British Possession, subject to any exceptions, conditions, and modifications specified in the Order:

And whereas by the same Act it is further provided that His Majesty in Council, by the same or any subsequent Order may as respects the Court and British Possession named in the Order, provide for all matters authorised by the said Act to be prescribed, and for all matters appearing to His Majesty to be necessary or proper for giving effect to the Order and to the said Act and that an Order in Council applying the Act to a Court in a British Possession may provide that Solicitors of that Court may be admitted by virtue of the said Act to be Solicitors in any part of the United Kingdom—namely, England, Scotland, or Ireland, or in two or one of those parts only:

And whereas the said Act has already been applied to the Supreme Court of the Colony of New Zealand and to the Colony of New Zealand in respect of England, and application has been made by the Governor of the said Colony that the said Act may be applied to that Colony in respect of Ireland and Scotland:

And whereas His Majesty in Council on the report of the Secretary of State for the Colonies is satisfied that the regulations respecting the admission of persons to be Solicitors of the Supreme Court of the Colony of New Zealand are such as to secure that those Solicitors possess proper qualifications and competency and that by the law of the Colony of New Zealand Solicitors of the Supreme Court in Ireland and Law Agents in Scotland will be admitted to be Solicitors of the Supreme Court of the Colony of New Zealand on terms as favourable as those on which it is proposed to admit Solicitors of that Court in pursuance of the said Act, to be Solicitors of the Supreme Court in Ireland and Law Agents in Scotland:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, in pursuance of the said recited Act and in execution of the powers thereby in His Majesty vested is pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered that The Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900, shall apply to the Supreme Court of the Colony of New Zealand and to the Colony of New Zealand in respect of Ireland and Scotland and that Solicitors of the Supreme Court of the Colony of New Zealand may be admitted, by virtue of the said Act to be Solicitors in Ireland and Law Agents in Scotland subject to the conditions hereinafter specified.

1. A Solicitor of the said Supreme Court of the Colony of New Zealand (hereinafter called the applicant) who, having been in practice before such Court for not less than three years, is desirous of being admitted to be a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in Ireland or a Law Agent in Scotland, shall be a male British subject.

2. The applicant shall, four calendar months at least before the first day of the month in which he proposes to be admitted, leave with the Registrar of Solicitors, in the case of Ireland or with the Registrar of Law Agents in the case of Scotland, his original certificate of admission in the said Supreme Court of the said Colony together with

(a.) A certificate from the authority of the said Colony in whose custody the roll of the Solicitors of the said Court is kept stating that his name is still upon the roll and has never been removed therefrom and that no order has ever been made directing him to be suspended from practising his profession:

(b.) One or more certificates of fitness and character, signed by two resident practising Solicitors of at least five years standing in the said Court and by at least one of the Judges or officers next in rank of such Court:

(c.) A statutory declaration in terms of or to the effect of that set out in the Schedule (A) hereunto annexed.

3. Where the applicant has not served under articles as clerk to a practising Solicitor, he shall, in addition to the before-mentioned documents, leave with the Registrar of Solicitors in the case of Ireland or with the Registrar of Law Agents in the case of Scotland, a certificate from the Solicitor or Barrister in whose office he has been employed to the effect that for a period of not less than three years prior to admission to practice in New Zealand he has been engaged exclusively in acquiring a practical knowledge of law. Such certificate shall be attested by a Judge of the Supreme Court after personal inquiry into the facts and circumstances therein set forth.

4. The leaving of the documents hereinbefore required shall be equivalent to notice of intention to apply for admission within the meaning of the Acts regulating the admission of Solicitors in Ireland.

5. A certificate under the hand of the Registrar of Solicitors that the applicant has complied with the provisions of The Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900, and of this Order, shall be equivalent to the certificate of his having passed the Final Examination required in Ireland.

6. The application for admission to be a Solicitor in Ireland shall be made to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

7. The applicant in Ireland shall not be required to pass any examination either before or after making such application.

8. The admission of the applicant as a Solicitor in Ireland shall be stamped with the stamps required to be impressed on the admission of Solicitors in Ireland and shall be impressed with such further stamp as shall, together with the