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self-governing Dominion unless and until those provisions
are adopted as regards the Dominion by a Proclamation of
the Governor-General or Governor: And whereas it is
expedient to issue a Proclamation accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, Robert Stout, the Administrator of the
Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me
by the said Coinage Act, 1920, and of every other power
and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the provisions of subsection two of section
one of the said Coinage Act, 1920, are hereby adopted as
regards the Dominion of New Zealand, and shall apply thereto
as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zea-
land Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

Coinage Act, 1920.

CHAPTER 3. A.D. 1920.

AN ACT to amend the Law in respect of the Standard
Fineness of Silver Coins current in the United Kingdom
and in other Parts of His Majesty’s Dominions.

[31st March, 1920.]

BE it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Alteration of standard fineness of silver coins.
33 & 34 Vic. c. 10. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 72.

1. (1.) The First Schedule to the Coinage Act, 1870, as
   amended by section two of the Coinage Act, 1891, shall, as
   regards coins made after the commencement of this Act, have
   effect as though for the words “thirty-seven-fortieths fine
   silver, three-fortieths alloy; or millesimal fineness 925,” in
   the column relating to standard fineness there were sub-
   sti tuted the words “one-half fine silver, one-half alloy; or
   millesimal fineness 500,” and as though for the figure “4”
   in the column relating to the remedy allowance in respect of
   millesimal fineness there were substituted the figure “5.”

(2.) Where by virtue of a Proclamation made under section
eleven of the Coinage Act, 1870, the whole or any part of that
Act is in force in any British possession at the date of the
commencement of this Act, that Act shall as from that date
apply in that possession as amended by this Act, and any
Order in Council or Proclamation directing that any coins
which under the Coinage Acts, 1870 and 1891, are legal tender
in the United Kingdom shall be current and legal tender
in any British possession shall extend to coins which are legal
tender in the United Kingdom under those Acts as amended
by this Act:

Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall not
apply as respects any self-governing dominion unless and
until those provisions are adopted as regards the dominion
by a Proclamation of the Governor-General or Governor.

Amendment of law with respect to standard trial plates of silver.

2. The standard trial plates of silver to be used for the
   purpose of the trial of the pyx shall, instead of being made of
   a standard fineness in conformity with the provisions of the
   Coinage Acts, 1870 and 1891, be made of pure silver.

Short title and construction.

3. (1.) This Act may be cited as the Coinage Act, 1920, and
   shall be construed as one with the Coinage Acts, 1870 to 1891,
   and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the
   Coinage Acts, 1870 to 1920.

(2.) In this Act the expression “self-governing dominion”
means the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Aus-
tralia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South
Africa, and Newfoundland.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this 14th day of September,
1920.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Vice-Consul of the Netherlands at Christchurch appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th September, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
directs it to be notified that he has been informed
by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the
King’s Exequatur empowering

Mr. R. J. COOPER

to act as Vice-Consul of the Netherlands at Christchurch
has received His Majesty’s signature.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Trustees for Public Cemeteries appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th September, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has, in pursuance of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act,
1908, been pleased, on the 7th day of September, 1920, to
appoint

JOHN VINCENT FOXON

to be a trustee, in the place of Richard Fenwick, deceased,
to provide for the maintenance and care of the Otaio Public
Cemetery.

JOHN BEWS,
THOMAS MCCULLOCK, and
JAMES NEWLANDS

to be trustees, in place of Owen Bond, deceased, Alexander
Nicol and Thomas Paterson, left the district, to provide for
the maintenance and care of the Ngapara Public Cemetery.

ROBERT WEBSTER,
JOHN FRASER,
AUGUSTUS CANDY, and
JAMES SPRAGGS

to be trustees, in place of Christopher Hensen, Nicholas
John Scott, Peter Clements, and Frank Stanwell, to pro-
vide for the maintenance and care of the Pokuru Public
Cemetery.

ADOLPH LARSEN

to be a trustee, in place of Lars Mattson, to provide for the
maintenance and care of the Mauriceville Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Bailiff of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 9th September, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant THOMAS DWAN

to be Bailiff of the Magistrate’s Court at Temuka, on and
from the 1st day of September, 1920, vice Sergeant J. Fitz-
gerald, transferred.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th September, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS PATERSON, Senior,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the district
of Raglan, vice J. W. Smith.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th September, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to accept the resignation by

ROBERT ST. CLAIR MCKENZIE, Esq.,

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

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.—
Notice No. 2033.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 8th September, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to appoint

BENJAMIN BLENKINSOP SWINBURN

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds
Act, 1908, for the Raetihi Town District, the appointment
to date as from the 8th September, 1920.

W. NOSWORTHY,
Minister of Agriculture.