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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 55

order declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively:—

Local Bodies.
Waiapu County Council
Lethbridge Town Board
Riwaka Road Board..

Plants.
Ragwort and gorse.
Gorse, burdock, penny-royal, and ox-eye daisy.
Gorse and ragwort.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Importation of Potatoes from New Zealand into Victoria and Western Australia prohibited.—Notice No. 965.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5th June, 1905.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the States of Victoria and Western Australia have prohibited the importation into Victoria and Western Australia of potatoes from New Zealand.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Importation of Swine from New Zealand into certain States of the Australian Commonwealth prohibited.—Notice No. 964.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5th June, 1905.

THE following States have prohibited the importation of swine from New Zealand for the period stated opposite the name of each respectively:—

Queensland: Six months from 19th April, 1905.
New South Wales: Twelve months from 3rd November, 1904.
Victoria: Till revoked.
Tasmania: Twelve months from 11th May, 1905.
Western Australia: Till revoked.

The importation of New Zealand swine into South Australia is permitted.

“Bacon, hams, and cured pork” may be imported into Tasmania; “bacon, hams, cured or dressed pork (provided no viscera, or portion thereof, in an uncooked state is allowed to be imported or introduced therewith),” into Queensland; and “bacon, hams, cured or frozen pork, the latter to be accompanied by a meat-inspector’s certificate of health from the port of shipment,” into New South Wales.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Shops in the Town District of Rongotea.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the Town District of Rongotea (not being one of the districts mentioned in section 3 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”) has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops, except hairdressers’, in the town district shall be closed at 6 o’clock in the evening on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 9 o’clock in the evening on Saturdays, and at 1 o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesdays: And whereas the Rongotea Town Board has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops within the town district:

Now, therefore, I, Albert Pitt, acting for and on behalf of the Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the 12th day of June, 1905, all shops, except hairdressers’, in the Town District of Rongotea shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister for Labour.

Assistant Lecturer, Thames School of Mines, required.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1905.

WRITTEN applications, stating qualifications and accompanied by testimonials, will be received at this office up to Saturday, 1st July next, for the position of Assistant Lecturer at the School of Mines at the Thames, at a salary of £180 per annum.

The person selected will be required to assume his duties on the 1st August next. The appointment will be probationary, subject to confirmation after three months.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Despatch.—Appearance Orders to Respondents in Appeals to Privy Council.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th June, 1905.

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

JAS. McGOWAN.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 3rd April, 1905.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit, for the information of your Government and for publication in the colony, a copy of an Order of the King in Council of the 20th March, 1905, amending the practice with regard to the issue of appearance orders to respondents who have not appeared to an appeal to His Majesty in Council.

I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTLETON.

The Officer administering the Government
of

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of March, 1905.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, LORD PRESIDENT, LORD SUFFIELD, SIR WILLIAM WALROND.

WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a representation from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, dated the 16th day of March, 1905, and in the words following, viz.:—

“The Lords of the Judicial Committee having taken into consideration the practice under which an appeal to Your Majesty in Council cannot in the absence of a special order in that behalf made by Their Lordships be set down for hearing ex parte as against a respondent to the appeal who has failed to enter an appearance thereto in the Registry of the Privy Council unless the appellant shall have previously obtained from Their Lordships two successive orders commonly known as ‘appearance orders’ requiring the said respondent to enter an appearance to the appeal within the periods by the said orders respectively limited and shall have duly published the said orders by affixing the same on the Royal Exchange and elsewhere in the usual manner and unless the said periods so limited by the said orders as aforesaid shall have expired. And being of opinion that the said practice is inconvenient and ought in certain cases and subject to certain conditions to be dispensed with, Their Lordships do this day agree humbly to recommend to Your Majesty to order as follows, that is to say:—

“1. That where a respondent to an appeal to Your Majesty in Council whose name has been entered on the record of the appeal by the Court admitting the appeal fails to enter an appearance to the appeal in the Registry of the Privy Council and it appears from the transcript record in the appeal or from a certificate of the officer of the Court transmitting the said transcript record to the Registrar of the Privy Council that the said respondent has received notice of the order admitting the appeal to Your Majesty in Council or of the Order of Your Majesty in Council giving the appellant special leave to appeal to Your Majesty in Council (as the case may be) and has also received notice of the despatch of the said transcript record to the Registrar of the Privy Council the appellant shall not subject to any direction by Their Lordships to the contrary be required to take out appearance orders calling upon the said respondent to enter an appearance in the appeal and the appeal may subject as aforesaid be set down for hearing ex parte as against the said respondent at any time after the expiration of three calendar months from the date of the lodging of the appellant’s petition of appeal in like manner as if the said appearance orders had been taken out by the appellant and the times thereby respectively limited for the said respondent to enter an appearance had expired.

“2. That where a respondent to an appeal to Your Majesty in Council whose name has been brought on the record of the appeal by an Order of Your Majesty in Council fails to enter an appearance to the appeal in the Registry of the Privy Council and it appears from the transcript record or from a supplementary record in the appeal or from a certificate of the officer of the Court transmitting the said transcript record or supplementary record to the Registrar of the Privy Council that the said respondent has received