July 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2735

Sale of certain Publication prohibited.

WHEREAS the sale of the publication mentioned in the Schedule hereto is deemed by me to be injurious to the public interest in respect of the present war :

Now, therefore, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, His Majesty’s Attorney-General for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the regulations made under the War Regulations Act, 1914, on the 11th day of October, 1915, as amended by regulations made on the 18th day of June, 1918, prohibit the sale of the publication mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

Dated this 19th day of July, 1918.

SCHEDULE.

THE pamphlet called “Gold for Iron,” purporting to be issued by the Auckland Branch of the society known as the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

F. H. D. BELL,
Attorney-General.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Rodney County Council.—Notice No. 1934.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 19th July, 1918.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Rodney County Council has, by special order, declared gorse (Ulex europæus) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act in the district under its jurisdiction.

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

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Patea County Council.—Notice No. 1935.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 19th July, 1918.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Patea County Council has, by special order, declared Cape daisy (Cryptostemma calendulacea) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act in the district under its jurisdiction.

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

Permanent Head of Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce.—Notice No. 1936.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 19th July, 1918.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the position of Secretary of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce has been abolished as from 18th instant, and that in future the permanent head of the Department shall be designated Director-General of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Wanganui County Council.—Notice No. 1937.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1918.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Wanganui County Council has, by special order, declared Cape daisy (Cryptostemma calendulacea) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

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

Export of Tallow to the United States.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 25th July, 1918.

IT is notified for general information that no permits for the exportation of tallow to the United States can be granted unless the exporter is prepared to give security to the Collector of Customs, at the rate of £20 per ton, for the delivery to the Imperial Munitions Board, Ottawa, or to the Ministry of Munitions, London, of the glycerine content thereof, calculated as equal to at least 10 per cent. by weight of crude glycerine containing at least 80 per cent. of anhydrous glycerol.

The price at present fixed for crude 80 per cent. glycerine is £150 per ton, and for 88 per cent. saponification glycerine £165 per ton.

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The security taken by the Collector of Customs cannot be discharged unless an officially certified certificate is produced within six months, or such longer time as the Collector may permit, that the glycerine content of the tallow in respect of which security has been taken has been duly delivered as aforesaid.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Appointment of certain Solicitors abroad with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to be Commissioners of Oaths.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington District, Wellington Registry.

In the matter of the Judicature Act, 1908; and in the matter of a petition by the Adjutant-General of the New Zealand Defence Forces for the appointment of Commissioners of Oaths.

UPON reading the petition of Robert Ward Tate, Adjutant-General of the New Zealand Defence Forces, for an order appointing the undermentioned members of His Majesty’s Expeditionary Force at present on active service abroad to be Commissioners of Oaths: And upon reading the affidavits of the said Robert Ward Tate and Walter Arnold Hawkins respectively filed herein: I do order, pursuant to section 47 (1) of the Judicature Act, 1908, that the undermentioned persons, being Solicitors of the Supreme Court of New Zealand whose names are still on the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Wellington, and who are now members of His Majesty’s Expeditionary Force at present on active service abroad, be and the same are hereby appointed to be and act as Commissioners of the Supreme Court of New Zealand for the purpose of administering and taking any oath, affidavit, or affirmation out of the Dominion of New Zealand, whether in any action, cause or proceeding, matter, or thing commenced or pending in the said Court or in any Court of concurrent or inferior jurisdiction in the Dominion of New Zealand, or in any proceeding, matter, or thing whatsoever within the cognizance or jurisdiction of any such Court:—

Rawdon St. John Beere.
Hugh Rowland Biss.
Phillip Benedict Broad.
Kenneth Sholto Caldwell.
Phillip Brunskill Cooke.
Ashley Trevor Duncan.
James Sudgen Hanna.
Philip Hamilton Harper.
Thomas Clarke Atkinson Hislop.
Harry Lawson.
Frederic Millward Martin.
John Mason.
John Llewellyn Merton.
William John Organ.
William Perry.
Gurdon Samuel.
Thomas Edward Youde Seddon.
Archibald Burnett Seivwright.
John Francis Bary Stevenson.
Charles Archibald Lawrance Treadwell.
Ernest Belton Tustin.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of June, 1918.

ROBERT STOUT,
Chief Justice.

Soldiers’ Property Boards of Trustees appointed.

National Efficiency Board,
Wellington, 19th July, 1918.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the regulations relating to the management of soldiers’ properties made on the 2nd April, 1917, under the War Regulations Act, 1914, and its amendments, the Minister of Defence has constituted and appointed the following Soldiers’ Property Boards of Trustees, namely:—

1. THE SIMON BROPHY SOLDIERS’ PROPERTY BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—Consisting of James Arthur Frostick, of Christchurch, Canterbury District Commissioner of the National Efficiency Board; Kenneth Mackenzie, of Geraldine, Sheep-farmer; Jeremiah Connolly, of Geraldine, Dealer; and Frederick Robert Flatman, of Woodbury, Sheep-farmer.

2. THE H. W. HOWORTH SOLDIERS’ PROPERTY BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—Consisting of James Begg, of Mosgiel, Otago District Commissioner of the National Efficiency Board; Peter Clark Gray, of Gore, Company Manager; John Turnbull, of Waikaka, Farmer; and Richard Frederick Wallis, of Gore, Tanner and Fellmonger.

WILLIAM FERGUSON,
Chairman.