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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 172

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and Sections 18 and 19 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £400 in each case.

Wellington, 28th November, 1917.

ROBERT TRIGGS, Public Trustee.

Regulations relating to the Importation of Potatoes into the Commonwealth of Australia.—Notice No. 1904.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1917.

THE following particulars, taken from the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette of 18th October, 1917, of the restrictions on the importation of potatoes into the Commonwealth are published for general information :—

The regulations published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette of 29th July, 1911, are repealed, and it is now proclaimed that the importation of potatoes into any part of Australia from any country is prohibited unless—

1. They are accompanied by an official certificate, dated and signed by a responsible officer of a Government Department of the country of origin, identifying the potatoes, specifying the quantity, and certifying—

   (a.) That at the date of the issue of the certificate they were free from Phytophthora infestans (known as Irish blight), Synchytrium endobioticum (known as potato-canker, black scab, warty disease, and cauliflower disease in potatoes), Spongospora subterranea (known as powdery scab), and all other serious diseases ;

   (b.) That they were grown in the country named ;

   (c.) That they were grown on premises known after due investigation not to be or to have been during the preceding twelve months infected with any of the said diseases ;

   (d.) That they were packed in the country of origin in clean, new packages :

2. The bags, crates, or other packages containing the potatoes are marked on the outside with the name of the country of origin and with other distinguishing mark or marks :

3. The potatoes, after being landed, are planted in quarantine in a quarantine station, and after having matured are, with the product of their cultivation, found on inspection to be free from disease.

Provided that no consignment of potatoes shall exceed 14 lb. in weight.

Provided further that the Minister may permit potatoes which are certified by a Quarantine Officer to be free from disease to be imported under and subject to such conditions as the Minister may think fit to impose, for use as food.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture.

Mining Privilege to be struck off the Register.—Notice under the Mining Amendment Act, 1914.

Mining Registrar’s Office,
Ross, 13th November, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that at the expiration of three months from this date the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule hereto will, unless cause to the contrary is shown, be struck off the Register.

C. E. ROACH,
Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

No. 914: Water-race situated at Cedar Creek, held by Lemuel McNair.

Mining Privilege to be struck off the Register.

Office of the Mining Registrar,
Blenheim, 22nd November, 1917.

NOTICE is hereby given that, unless cause to the contrary be shown, the following mining privilege will be struck off the Register after three months from the date of this notice.

A. F. BENT,
Mining Registrar for Havelock.

SPECIAL alluvial claim No. 3/09, held by W. G. Collett and others (Redwing Mine) at Mahakipawa.