Jan. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3

6. The undermentioned officers may, unless otherwise requested by the President, attend any meeting of the said Board :

The Director-General of Agriculture,
The Director of Education,
The Under-Secretary of Lands, and
The Director of Forestry.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
North Island.

1. The Auckland District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Auckland, except the counties of Waipu, Waikohu, and Cook. Metropolitan Society: The Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

2. The Hawke’s Bay District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, together with the counties of Waipu, Waikohu, and Cook. Metropolitan Society: The Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society.

3. The Taranaki District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Taranaki. Metropolitan Society: The Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural Society.

4. The Wellington District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Wellington. Metropolitan Society: The Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

South Island.

5. The Marlborough—Nelson—Westland District.—Comprising the Provincial Districts of Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland. Metropolitan Society: The Nelson Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

6. The Canterbury District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Canterbury. Metropolitan Society: The Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

7. The Otago District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Otago, except the counties of Southland, Wallace, Lake, Fiord, and Stewart Island. Metropolitan Society: The Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society.

8. The Southland District.—Comprising the counties of Southland, Wallace, Lake, Fiord, and Stewart Island. Metropolitan Society: The Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
The President of the Society,

In accordance with the regulations under the Board of Agriculture Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that the Society is requested to send a delegate or delegates (according to the number of its members*) to a meeting to be held at the [Name of building] at [Name of town], at [Hour] .m., on day, the day of , 19 , for the purpose of recommending persons for appointment by His Excellency the Governor-General to the Board of Agriculture.

Nominations for such appointment may be made by your society, and must be forwarded to the undersigned on or before the last day of February, 19 .

Dated at the day of , 19 .

[Signature.]

• See subclause (11) of clause 2 of the regulations mentioned.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendment of the Regulations under the Stock Act, 1908, for the Prevention of the Introduction into New Zealand of Diseases affecting Dogs.—Notice No. 2239.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1922.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Stock Act, 1908, and of all powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, amending clause forty of the regulations under the aforementioned Act, dated the fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, prescribing the period of quarantine which dogs from the United Kingdom are required to undergo in the Dominion, and doth make the following regulation for the purpose aforesaid ; and doth declare that the said revocation and the regulation hereby made shall come into force on the date of publication of this Order in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATION.

CLAUSE 40 is amended by deleting the words “ Dogs from the United Kingdom, 6 months, such time to include the period from the date of embarkation of the animal in Great Britain to its removal into quarantine in New Zealand,” and substituting therefor the words “ Dogs from the United Kingdom, 6 months.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: W. A. G. SKINNER, Government Printer, Wellington.

Price, 6d.] [970/1/23—109