WEDNESDAY, the 20th day of July next, will be
observed as a public holiday in the Government
Offices throughout the Dominion, for the celebration of
Arbor Day.

In order that the movement may be made as successful
as possible, the Government hopes that the Mayors of
various municipalities and Chairmen of local bodies will
place the matter prominently before the people of the
Dominion, and do all they can to encourage the planting of
public reserves and other available lands, both public and
private, with trees suited to the locality.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th May, 1910.

Despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
--Acts of New Zealand Parliament assented to.

THE following Despatches, received from the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, are published for general
information.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.--No. 57.)
Downing Street, 18th March, 1910.
MY LORD,—With reference to your despatch No. 6, of the
27th of January, I have the honour to inform you that His
Majesty will not be advised to exercise his power of dis-
allowance with respect to Act 9 Edward VII, No. 21, of
the Parliament of New Zealand, entitled An Act to amend
the Customs Duties Act, 1908.

I have, &c.,
CREWE.
The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

(New Zealand.--No. 58.)
Downing Street, 18th March, 1910.
MY LORD,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No. 6 of the 27th of January, and to
inform you that His Majesty will not be advised to
exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the
following Acts of the Parliament of New Zealand :—
9 Edward VII, No. 2. An Act to apply a Sum of
Money out of the Public Account and other Accounts to
the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of
March, Nineteen hundred and ten.
9 Edward VII, No. 3. An Act to authorise the Raising
of Money in aid of certain Public Works and Purposes.
9 Edward VII, No. 4. An Act to impose a Land-tax
and an Income-tax.
9 Edward VII, No. 5. An Act to apply a Sum of Money
out of the Public Account and other Accounts to the
Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March,
Nineteen hundred and ten.
9 Edward VII, No. 6. An Act to apply a Sum of
Money out of the Public Account and other Accounts to
the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of
March, Nineteen hundred and ten.
9 Edward VII, No. 7. An Act to amend the Designa-
tion of Districts Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 8. An Act to make Further Pro-
vision for the Closer Settlement of Land by the Establish-
ment of Land Settlement Associations assisted by the
Guarantee of the State.
9 Edward VII, No. 11. An Act to consolidate and
amend the Law relating to Public Hospitals and Charitable
Institutions, the Distribution of Charitable Aid, and the
Establishment of Private Hospitals.
9 Edward VII, No. 12. An Act to amend the Law
relating to Friendly and certain other Societies.
9 Edward VII, No. 13. An Act to make Further Pro-
vision for the Validity of the Judicial Proceedings of In-
ferior Courts notwithstanding Technical or Formal Errors.
9 Edward VII, No. 14. An Act to amend the Industrial
Schools Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 15. An Act to consolidate and
amend the Law relating to Native Land.
9 Edward VII, No. 16. An Act to amend the Law with
respect to the Sale of Intoxicating Liquor in that Part of
New Zealand known as the King-country.
9 Edward VII, No. 17. An Act to amend the Stamp
Duties Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 18. An Act to amend the Coal-
mines Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 19. An Act to amend the Public
Works Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 20. An Act to amend the New
Zealand Society of Accountants Act, 1908.

9 Edward VII, No. 22. An Act to amend the Old-age
Pensions Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 23. An Act to regulate Race
Meetings.
9 Edward VII, No. 24. An Act to amend the Urewera
District Native Reserve Act, 1896.
9 Edward VII, No. 25. An Act to amend the Workers'
Compensation Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 26. An Act to amend the Magis-
trates' Courts Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 27. An Act to amend the Gold Duty
Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 29. An Act to amend the Law
relating to the Acquisition and Administration of Land
for Settlements.
9 Edward VII, No. 30. An Act to make Provision for
the Establishment and Control of Reformatory Institutions
for the Reception and Detention of Habitual Inebriates
and of Fallen Women.
9 Edward VII, No. 31. An Act to repeal certain Enact-
ments of the General Assembly relating to Government
Advances and Guarantees, and to make other Provisions in
lieu thereof.
9 Edward VII, No. 32. An Act to amend the Public
Service Classification and Superannuation Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 33. An Act to validate certain
Proceedings for the Taking of Land for Public Works.
9 Edward VII, No. 34. An Act to authorise the Con-
struction of certain Railways, and to make Provision for
the Sale or other Disposition of certain Lands taken but
no longer required for Railway Purposes.
9 Edward VII, No. 35. An Act to appropriate and apply
certain Sums of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, the
Public Works Fund, and other Accounts to the Services
of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, Nine-
teenthundred and ten, and to appropriate the Supplies
granted in this Present Session.

Local and Personal Acts.

9 Edward VII, No. 1. An Act to enable the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Auckland to sell, mortgage, exchange,
and lease certain Lands in the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Auckland, Particulars whereof are set out in the Schedule
hereto.
9 Edward VII, No. 2. An Act to confer Additional
Powers upon the Ellesmere Domain Board.
9 Edward VII, No. 3. An Act to authorise the Welling-
ton City Council to apply certain Loan-moneys borrowed
for specific Water-supply Purposes to certain other Water-
supply Purposes.
9 Edward VII, No. 4. An Act to amend and extend
the Borough of South Dunedin Empowering Act, 1904.
9 Edward VII, No. 5. An Act to constitute the Wai-
mairi County.
9 Edward VII, No. 6. An Act to amend the Auckland
and Suburban Drainage Act, 1908.
9 Edward VII, No. 7. An Act to enable the Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Wellington to erect a Boarding-
school on certain Land situate in the City of Wellington,
and to borrow and raise Money on the Security of the
same and of certain other Lands, and to devote the Net
Proceeds in or towards the Erection and Upkeep of certain
School and other Buildings thereon.
9 Edward VII, No. 8. An Act to incorporate the Board
of Governors of the McLean Institute.
9 Edward VII, No. 9. An Act to vest a Portion of the
Tawhiti No. 1A and a Portion of the Tawhiti No. 1F
Blocks respectively in the Public Trustee, to enable the
said Lands to be transferred to the Tokomaru Sheep-
farmers' Freezing Company (Limited).
9 Edward VII, No. 10. An Act to enable the Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Wellington to raise Moneys for the
Purpose of purchasing Sites in the Town of Wanganui,
and of building thereon a Church, Presbytery, and Con-
vent, by Mortgage of certain Lands situate in the Town
of Wanganui, and to enable him to lease the same Lands
for any Term not exceeding Sixty-six Years; and also to
authorise the Refund to the Trustees in the Estate of the
late Charles Henry Kirk, of Wanganui, Catholic Priest,
of the Estate Duty paid in respect of certain Lands.
9 Edward VII, No. 11. An Act to enable the New
Plymouth Borough Council to effect an Exchange of Lands.
9 Edward VII, No. 12. An Act to authorise the Con-
solidation by the Borough of Timaru of certain Loans into
a Consolidated Loan.
9 Edward VII, No. 13. An Act to vest in the Otago
Hospital Board, as an Endowment for Hospital Purposes,
a Portion of certain Lands at present vested in the Mayor,
Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Kaitangata
as an Endowment in Aid of the Borough Funds.
9 Edward VII, No. 14. An Act to confer upon the
Taranaki Agricultural Society Extended Powers of leasing
certain Land.
9 Edward VII, No. 15. An Act to authorise the Re-
clamation by the Otago Dock Trust of certain Lands in
Otago Harbour, and to authorise the Widening of Mac-
andrew Road.