JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1819

Cancellation of Appointment as Ranger, Rotorua District.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 1st June, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to cancel the appointment of

JOHN FREDERICK COUPER

as a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 31st May, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by

ALEXANDER WILSON, Esq.,

of Ruatangata, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 2nd June, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE REDPATH, Esq.,

of Chatham Islands, to be a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Coroner resigned.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 31st May, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by

CECIL ROADLEY, Esq., J.P.,

of Rona Bay, Wellington, of his appointment as a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 31st May, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

JAMES BOYD and GEORGE ROBERT HOLTON

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District of Hurunui;

WILLIAM MILLER and WILLIAM HOWARD BOOTH

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wairarapa; and

GEORGE REDPATH, Esq., M.B., SETON HENDERSON, Esq., J.P., and ERNEST GUEST, Esq.,

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the Special Licensing District of Chatham Islands, vice G. H. Gibson, Esq., S.M., F. A. D. Cox, Esq., J.P., and A. J. Blakiston, Esq., J.P., respectively.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920.

Department of External Affairs,

Wellington, 24th May, 1920.

THE following Order made by his Majesty in Council is published for general information.

E. P. LEE, Minister of External Affairs.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of March, 1920.

Present:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chamberlain. Lord Somerleyton. Sir Frederick Ponsonby.

WHEREAS by the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany signed at Versailles on the twenty-eighth day of June, 1919, Germany renounced, in favour of the principal Allied and Associated Powers, all her right and title over the Islands of Western Samoa:

And whereas it has been agreed between the principal Allied and Associated Powers that the said Islands shall be administered by His Majesty in His government of His Dominion of New Zealand, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the said Treaty:

And whereas by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means His Majesty the King has jurisdiction in the said Islands, and it is expedient to determine the mode of exercising such jurisdiction:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue of the powers by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

(1.) This Order may be cited as the Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920.

(2.) The limits of this Order are the Islands of Upolu and Savaii, in the South Pacific Ocean, together with the Islands adjacent thereto situated between the thirteenth and fourteenth degrees of south latitude and the one hundred and seventy-first and one hundred and seventy-third degrees west longitude.

The said Islands shall be known as the Territory of Western Samoa, and shall not be deemed to be included within the limits of the Pacific Order in Council, 1893, and any Orders amending the same.

(3.) The Parliament of the Dominion of New Zealand shall have full power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Territory of Western Samoa, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the said Treaty of Peace.

(4.) Subject to the authority so conferred upon the Parliament of the Dominion of New Zealand, and until that Parliament otherwise provides, the Executive Government of the said Dominion may, by Order in Council, exercise the like authority to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the said territory.

(5.) His Majesty may from time to time revoke, alter, add to, or amend this Order.

And the Right Honourable Viscount Milner, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

Regulations for the Testing for Tuberculosis of Cattle imported into the Argentine Republic.—Notice No. 2016.

Department of Agriculture,

Wellington, 28th May, 1920.

THE following copy of a decree issued by the Executive of the Argentine Republic on the 31st December, 1919, regarding the testing for tuberculosis of cattle imported into that country, is published for general information.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Buenos Aires, December 31st, 1919.

THE EXECUTIVE OF THE NATION DECREES

Article 1.

THIRTY days after the publication of the present Decree animals of the bovine species, which are imported from overseas, shall be submitted to the following rules:

(a.) Quarantine for thirty days in the Quarantine Lazaret of the port of the Capital in accordance with the general and special veterinary sanitation regulations.

(b.) Application of the ophthalmic reaction test for diagnosing tuberculosis.

(c.) Injection of tuberculin in the second last or penultimate day of the quarantine, according to the instructions issued by the Directorate General of Live-stock.

(d.) Animals which clearly show reaction to either of the two above-mentioned tests shall be slaughtered.

(e.) Positive diagnosis of reaction to the ophthalmic test is understood to mean those cases in which the animals have a well-defined accumulation of pus (reaction pus) in the inside angle of the eye.

(f.) Animals in which the reaction is not sufficiently clear on which to form an opinion shall be subjected to further quarantine, which shall last for the time necessary to make such new tests as the Directorate General of Live-stock may decide upon.

(g.) The owners, or their representatives, of animals which have been slaughtered on account of showing reaction to the tuberculin test shall not be permitted to view the autopsy, but a detailed report thereon shall be drawn up in each case.

Article 2.

These rules shall not cancel any general rule, but only such as refer to reactions to tuberculin.

Article 3.

Communicate, &c.,

IRIGOYEN, Alfredo Demarchi.