JUNE 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2349

Copyright.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th June, 1917.

THE following Proclamation by the President of the United States of America, relative to the protection in the United States of musical works by New Zealand authors against reproduction by mechanical contrivances, has been received, and is published for general information.

J. A. HANAN,
Minister of Justice.

[Copyright.—New Zealand.]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by the Act of Congress of March 4, 1909, entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting Copyright,” that the provisions of said Act, “so far as they secure copyright controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, shall include only compositions published and copyrighted after this Act goes into effect, and shall not include the works of a foreign author or composer unless the foreign State or nation of which such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States similar rights”:

And whereas it is further provided that the copyright secured by the Act shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign State or nation, only upon certain conditions set forth in section 8 of said Act, to wit,—

(a.) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or

(b.) When the foreign State or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this Act or by treaty; or when such foreign State or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto:

And whereas it is also provided by said section that “The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States, by Proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this Act may require”:

And whereas there has been received from the Government of Great Britain satisfactory official assurance that the Government of New Zealand has issued an Order in Council, effective December 1, 1916, providing that the existing copyright law of that country, including the provisions as to existing works, shall, subject to the provisions of the said law and of the said Order, apply—

(a.) To literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works the authors whereof were at the time of the making of the works citizens of the United States of America, in like manner as if the authors had been British subjects:

(b.) In respect of residence in the United States of America—in like manner as if such residence had been residence in New Zealand:

Provided that—

(i.) The term of copyright within New Zealand shall not exceed that conferred by the law of the United States of America:

(ii.) The enjoyment of the rights conferred by this Order shall be subject to the accomplishment of the conditions and formalities prescribed by the law of the United States of America:

(iii.) In the application to existing works of the provisions of section 32 of the Copyright Act, 1913, the commencement of this Order shall be substituted for the 1st July, 1913, in paragraph (b) of subsection (i):

Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that one of the alternative conditions specified in sections 1 (e) and 8 (b) of the Act of March 4, 1909, now exists and is fulfilled, and since December 1, 1916, has been fulfilled, in respect to the citizens of New Zealand, and that such citizens are entitled to all the benefits of section 1 (e) of the said Act, including “copyright controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work” in the case of all musical compositions by composers of New Zealand which have been published since December 1, 1916, and have been duly registered for copyright in the United States.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-first.

WOODROW WILSON.

By the President.
ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State.

Tender for Cartage of Parcels.

Railway Department (Head Office),
Wellington, 11th June, 1917.

THE following tender for cartage of parcels and small lots of perishable goods between the Invercargill Railway-station and the Town of Invercargill for a period from 1st June, 1917, to 31st March, 1919, is published for general information.

E. H. HILEY,
General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

SCHEDULE.

ACCEPTED: WILLIAM HAYES FREW.

RATE for delivery of parcels and small lots of perishable goods (conveyed by train) within the limits described in clause 8 of specification, at per parcel or per consignment, as the case may be—

28 lb. and under .. .. .. 0 2½
Over 28 lb. and up to 112 lb. .. .. 0 2½

Rate per mile or fraction of a mile for delivery of parcels and small lots of perishable goods (conveyed by train) for distances beyond the limits described in clause 8 of specification, at per parcel or per consignment, as the case may be, of 1 cwt. or under 0 2½

Rate for collection of parcels (to be conveyed by train) within the limits described in clause 8 of specification at per parcel—

28 lb. and under .. .. .. 0 2½
Over 28 lb. and up to 112 lb. .. .. 0 2½

Rate per mile or fraction of a mile for the collection of parcels (to be conveyed by train) for distances beyond the limits described in clause 8 of specification, at per parcel of 1 cwt. or under .. .. 0 2½

Exportation of Stilton, Cheddar, and Dairy Cheese.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 12th June, 1917.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the following classes of cheese may be exported to consignees, other than the British Government, in the United Kingdom and British possessions and protectorates:—

Stilton cheese.
Cheddar cheese (3rd grade).
Cheddar cheese (1st or 2nd grade) of less size than that known as “Export Size.”
Dairy cheese.

Applications must be made to the local Collector of Customs, specifying the marks and numbers, number of packages, names of shippers and consignees, names of exporting vessels, and ports of final departure from New Zealand.

This notification extends and supersedes notice dated 7th February, 1917 (New Zealand Gazette of 8th February, 1917).

W. B. MONTGOMERY,
Comptroller of Customs.

Officiating Ministers for 1917.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1917.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. VICTOR STANLEY MERCER.

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mr. H. W. SAVAGE.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.