JUNE 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1549

amount of stamps paid on articles of clerkship (if any) and admission in the Colony of New Zealand (such amount being certified by a Judge of the Supreme Court of the said Colony in the form set out in the Schedule (B) hereunto annexed) be equal in amount to the sum payable on articles of clerkship in Ireland.

9. The admission of the applicant as a Law Agent in Scotland shall be stamped with such stamp as shall, together with the amount of stamps paid on articles of clerkship (if any) and admission in the Colony of New Zealand (such amount being certified by a Judge of the Supreme Court of the said Colony in the form set out in the Schedule (B) hereunto annexed) be equal to the stamps required to be impressed on the articles of clerkship and admission of Law Agents in Scotland.

10. The following fees shall be paid by the applicant in Ireland to the incorporated Law Society of Ireland :--

On his application for admission being lodged .. 10 0 0
Before entering his name on the Roll of Solicitors .. .. .. .. 5 5 0
£15 5 0

11. The following fees shall be paid by the applicant in Scotland :--

Fee Fund dues of extract .. .. .. £ s. d.
0 10 6
Dues of extract .. .. .. 0 8 0
Registrar's fees .. .. .. 0 2 6
Fees on subscription of Roll of Law Agents practising before the Court of Session or any Sheriff Court. In each case .. .. .. 0 5 0
1 6 0

Law Examination fees, viz. :--
Fees to examiner .. .. .. £ s. d.
2 2 0
Defraying expenses .. .. 1 1 0
Petition dues .. .. 2 2 0
Fee Fund dues on petitions .. 0 10 0
5 15 0
£7 1 0

12. The application for admission to be a Law Agent in Scotland shall be made by petition to the Court of Session, and if the Court shall be satisfied that the applicant has complied with the requirements of this Order they shall ordain him to undergo the examination in law prescribed for the time being for applicants for admission as Law Agents in Scotland under “The Law Agents (Scotland) Act, 1873,” and Acts amending the same, and on the Court being satisfied that the applicant has duly passed such examination, then and not otherwise the Court shall cause him to be admitted a Law Agent and his name to be enrolled as such, which admission shall be in writing and signed by a Judge of the Court, and shall be stamped with the stamps required by clause 9 of this Order.

The rules in force in Scotland for the time being as to the presentation of petitions for admission as Law Agent and the proceedings under the same shall be applicable to all applications under this Order for admission as a Law Agent in Scotland.

A. W. FITZROY.

SCHEDULE A.

In the matter of “The Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900,” and in the matter of

I, , in the Colony of New Zealand, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :--

1. I am a male British subject.

2. I was on the day of admitted a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Colony of New Zealand, and I have been in practice before such Court for not less than three years. My name remains on the roll of the said Court, and I have not at any time been suspended from practice by the Court or by any Judge thereof, nor are any proceedings pending to strike my name off the said roll or to suspend me from practice. I beg to refer to the certificate of , marked “A” now produced to me in proof of the statements in this paragraph.

3. I have not been bankrupt or insolvent nor have I made a composition or arrangement with my creditors. (If this is not the case, state the facts with dates, and show that a complete discharge has been obtained.)

4. The document now produced and shown to me and marked with the letter “B” is my original certificate of admission in the said Court, and the documents now produced and shown to me and marked respectively with the letters “C” and “D” are respectively certificates of character and as to my fitness to be admitted (“a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in Ireland,” or “a Law Agent in Scotland” as the case may be) signed respectively by one of the Judges of the said Court (If not a Judge, state his rank) and by , of , and , of , two practising Solicitors of the said Court of at least five years standing.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of The Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.

SCHEDULE B.

I, [Name and style of Judge], do hereby certify that the amount of stamps paid on admission when [Name and style of applicant] was admitted to practice was the sum of £ , *(and that the amount of stamps paid on articles of clerkship when he was articled was the sum of £ ).

[To be signed and attested.]

• Omit if inapplicable.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed in the County of Hawke’s Bay.—Notice No. 872.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 15th June, 1904.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hawke’s Bay County Council has by special order declared ragwort or ragweed to be a noxious weed within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under its jurisdiction.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Authorising the Laying-off of the Main Streets in the Town of Lynmouth, Taranaki Land District, of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 8th June, 1904.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of the main streets in the Town of Lynmouth, Taranaki Land District, of a width of 66 ft., instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Authorising the Laying-off of Rangiuia Road, in the Town of Hauiti, Hawke’s Bay Land District, of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 9th June, 1904.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Rangiuia Road, in the Town of Hauiti, Hawke’s Bay Land District, of a width of 66 ft., instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notice to Mariners No. 45 of 1904.

ASTROLABE ROADS, TASMAN BAY.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th June, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the buoy which marked Hapuka Reef, Astrolabe Roads, has disappeared. Due notice will be given when it is relaid.

C. H. MILLS,
Acting Minister of Marine.

Notice to Mariners No. 46 of 1904.

BUOYS MARKING CHANNEL TO HAVELOCK.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th June, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pending the re-erection of the beacons marking the channel to Havelock, two cask buoys have been temporarily put down in the cross channel. The buoy on the north-west side is painted red, and that on the south-east side black. The buoys are moored in 6 ft. on the edge of the channel, bearing from one another north-west and south-east, and are 300 ft. apart. This gives a clear channel of 200 ft. wide, carrying 9 ft. of water at l.w.o.s.