JULY 11. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2207

Resignations of Trustees to a Drill-shed Reserve.

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Department of Defence,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1912.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under Part V of the Defence Act, 1908, the resignations of :—

Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN DRUMMOND, Retired List ;
Captain FREDERICK ALEXANDER HARRISON, Reserve of Officers ;
Captain JOHN CATTANACH DAVIDSON, 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment (Wellington East Coast Rifles) ;
Reverend HANS M. RIES ;
FRANCIS JOHN KNIGHT, Esq. ;
HENRY CARLSON, Esq. ; and
WILLIAM ROSE, Esq. ;

as Trustees of the Dannevirke Drill-shed Reserve. Date of resignations, 12th March, 1912.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Defence.

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Despatch.—Appointment of Royal Commission of Inquiry into Natural Resources, Trade, and Legislation of certain Portions of His Majesty’s Dominions.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th July, 1912.

T HE following despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and its enclosure, are published for general information.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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(New Zealand.—No. 137.)

Downing Street, 10th May, 1912.

MY LORD,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, a copy of a notification, dated the 1st instant, published in the London Gazette of the 3rd instant, of the appointment by His Majesty the King of the members of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the natural resources, trade, and legislation of certain portions of His Majesty’s Dominions.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

Governor the Right Honourable Lord Islington,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., &c.

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The London Gazette, 3rd May, 1912.

Downing Street, 1st May, 1912.

THE KING has been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Lord Inchcape, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., Sir Edgar Vincent, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles John Owens, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Tom Garnett, Esq., and William Lorimer, Esq. (representing the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland); the Honourable George Eulas Foster, LL.D., Minister of Trade and Commerce of the Dominion of Canada (representing the said Dominion); Donald Campbell, Esq., LL.B., formerly Member of the House of Assembly of the State of South Australia (representing the Commonwealth of Australia); the Right Honourable Sir Joseph George Ward, Bart., K.C.M.G., recently Prime Minister of the Dominion of New Zealand (representing the said Dominion); the Honourable Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff, Bart., Minister of Posts and Telegraphs of the Union of South Africa (representing the said Union); and the Honourable Edgar Rennie Bowring, Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Newfoundland (representing the said Colony), to be Commissioners to inquire into the natural resources, trade, and legislation of certain portions of His Majesty’s Dominions.

His Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William Arthur Robinson, Esq., B.A., to be Secretary to the aforesaid Commission.

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Despatch.—Order of the Lords in Council under the Pharmacy Act.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th July, 1912.

T HE following despatch from the Secretary of State, together with its enclosure, are published for general information.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—No. 81.)

Downing Street, 20th March, 1912.

MY LORD,—With reference to my despatch, No. 383, of the 16th November last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of an Order of the Lords of the Council, under the Pharmacy Act, confirming the new by-law made by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain under section 4 (b) of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, providing under certain specified conditions for the registration as pharmaceutical chemists, or chemists and druggists, without examination, of persons holding Colonial diplomas.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

Governor the Right Honourable Lord Islington,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., &c.

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At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 6th day of March, 1912.

BY THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTY’S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL.

Present :

Lord President. Lord Emmott.

Mr. Secretary Harcourt.

WHEREAS by section 2 of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, as amended by section 25 of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain are authorized and empowered to alter and amend the by-laws of the said Society made and established under or in pursuance of the Charter of Incorporation of the said Society, and to make and establish such new or additional by-laws as they shall deem proper and necessary for the purposes contemplated by the said Charter or by the said Act : Provided always that all such original by-laws, and all altered, amended, or additional by-laws, shall be confirmed and approved by a special general meeting of the members of the said Society and by the Privy Council :

And whereas the Lords of the Privy Council did, by their Order dated the 20th day of November, 1907, confirm and approve certain by-laws duly made and submitted to them by the said Council of the said Society :

And whereas by section 4 of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, it is (amongst other things) enacted that the power of making by-laws conferred by section 2 of the Pharmacy Act, 1852, on the Council of the said Pharmaceutical Society shall be deemed to include the power of making by-laws providing for the registration, upon payment of the prescribed fee, as pharmaceutical chemists, or chemists and druggists, under the Pharmacy Acts, 1852 and 1868, without examination, of any persons holding Colonial diplomas :

And whereas the said Council of the said Society has made a new by-law, additional to Section VII of the said by-laws so confirmed and approved as aforesaid by the Lords of the Privy Council on the 20th day of November, 1907, which said new by-law was confirmed and approved by a special general meeting of the members of the said Society on the 10th day of January, 1912 :

And whereas the said Society have submitted the said new by-law for the confirmation and approval of the Lords of the Privy Council :

Now, therefore, their Lordships, having taken the said new by-law (a copy of which is hereunto annexed) into consideration, are pleased to confirm and approve the same.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

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BY-LAW REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING ORDER.

Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

SECTION VII.—24. The Council may, by resolution at any ordinary meeting, enter into reciprocal agreements with Colonial pharmaceutical authorities empowered under statute to grant certificates of competent skill and knowledge to practise pharmacy in any British colony; and may make, amend, or determine thereunder regulations for the admission to the Register of Chemists and Druggists of Great Britain, without examination, of persons who after approved courses of study and examination have become registered in any British colony, as entitled to carry on the business of a chemist and druggist in that colony; provided that no person shall be registered under this by-law who fails to produce satisfactory evidence of having undergone an approved course of study, and of having passed the qualifying examination of the colony in which he is registered.

25. Persons holding Colonial certificates of qualification, and being desirous of becoming registered, without examination, as chemists and druggists in accordance with the last preceding by-law, shall submit to the Registrar such evidence as may be required by the regulations made from time to time by the Council in that behalf, and shall pay to the Registrar a fee of twelve guineas, whereupon, if the Council shall so see fit, they shall be registered.