MAR. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 689

14. The Minister of Mines retains to himself the right of cancelling any scholarship should the holder attend irregularly or be reported for idleness or bad conduct.

15. Holders of scholarships having to pay more than £5 for their return railway or steamer fare to Dunedin will be paid by the Mines Department any excess over the sum of £5, but such payment will only be made once in each year.

16. These regulations supersede the further amended regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 9th September, 1915.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.
(Mines, N. 17/20.)

Trustees of Patea-Waikotara Rabbit District elected.—Notice No. Ag. 2362.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 7th March, 1924.

NOTICE has been received, under the hand of the Returning Officer of the Patea-Waikotara Rabbit District, constituted under Part II of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, that
Thomas Alexander,
Robert C. Henry Connor,
Edmund Parsons,
Claud Smith, and
David Stuart Strachan
have been duly elected trustees of the said district.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Restriction on Importation into Uruguay of Animals, Products of Animal Origin, Fodder, and other Agricultural Products.—Notice No. Ag. 2363.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 10th March, 1924.

THE following copy of a cablegram from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Montevideo, to the Uruguayan Legation, London, has been transmitted to His Excellency the Governor-General by His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, and is published for public information:—

“Montevideo, 12th December, 1924.
“Uruguayan Legation, London.
“THE importation is prohibited from this date of all kinds of animals and products of animal origin as well as fodder, forage, and other agricultural products coming from the Australian Continent or, though not of that origin, carried by vessels which call at any port of the said continent. Vessels coming from Australia or which have called at a port in that continent will undergo sanitary examination in the outer harbour. If they do not carry among their cargo the products of which the importation is prohibited, they can be moored close to the quays of the harbour and will then be given free pratique. Otherwise the work of unloading will take place in the outer harbour under constant sanitary supervision, the cargo included in the prohibition being refused.”

“MANINI, Minister of Foreign Affairs.”

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Commercial Representative on the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board appointed.—Notice No. Ag. 2365.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 12th March, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of subsection (3) of section 4 of the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923,

James Ballantyne MacEwan
to be the representative of persons for the time being engaged in business as manufacturers of dairy-produce, or as sellers of such produce out of New Zealand, on the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board as constituted under the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Regulations as to Cattle-saleyards applied to all Districts. (H. 118.)

Department of Health,
Wellington, 10th March, 1924.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council made on the 21st day of May, 1923, and gazetted on the 31st day of the same month, regulations were made under the Health Act, 1920, with respect to the registration, construction, and sanitation of cattle-saleyards by local authorities:

And whereas by the said regulations it is provided that nothing in clauses 3 and 4 thereof shall apply within the district of any local authority, save in accordance with the terms of a notice by the Minister, published as thereafter provided:

Now, therefore, I, Maui Pomare, Minister of Health, in exercise of the power and authority given by the said regulations and by section 133 of the Health Act, 1920, do hereby apply clauses 3 and 4 of the said regulations to the districts of all local authorities as defined in the Health Act, 1920, and do hereby declare that this notice shall take effect on the 1st day of April, 1924.

M. POMARE, Minister of Health.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, Part II, Unclaimed Lands.

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of Part II of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (relating to unclaimed lands), made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder, and the whereabouts of the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 66 of that Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of that Act pertinent hereto: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained the whereabouts of the owner, and believe that such owner or an agent of such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, the value of the land for the purposes of section 67 (d) of the said Act being less than £500.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of March, 1924.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those pieces of land situate in the Town of Harapepe, Parish of Pirongia, County of Rutland, in the Provincial District of Auckland in New Zealand, be all the undermentioned admeasurements a little more or less, and being—

1. Allotment No. 80, containing 1 acre, bounded on the north-east by Allotment 76, 200 links; on the south-east by Allotment 79, 500 links; on the south-west by a street 150 links wide, 200 links; and on the north-west by a street 200 links wide, 500 links: and being the land granted by Crown grant No. 5060, Auckland Registry, to Patrick John Clinton, Private, No. 1 Company, Forest Rangers.

2. Allotment No. 27, containing 1 acre, bounded on the north-east by a street 150 links wide, 200 links; on the south-east by Allotment 26, 500 links; on the south-west by Allotment 31, 200 links; and on the north-west by Allotment 28, 500 links: and being the land granted by unregistered Crown grant No. S98, to James Sherrett, sometime Private in 2nd Company, Forest Rangers.

3. Allotment No. 52, containing 1 acre, bounded on the north-east by a street 100 links wide, 200 links; on the south-east by Allotment 51, 500 links, on the south-west by Allotment 56, 200 links; and on the north-west by a street 200 links wide, 500 links; and being the land granted by unregistered Crown grant No. S115 to Philip Smith, sometime Private in 2nd Company, Forest Rangers.

Officiating Ministers for 1924.—Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 1924.

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. Arthur Crosbie Wells.

Methodist Church of New Zealand.
Mr. William McDonald.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.