3060

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 76

Additional Rules and Regulations under the Law Practitioners Act, 1908.

BY virtue of the powers vested in us by law, we, the undersigned Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, do hereby make the following rules and regulations, to come into force on the 1st day of March, 1926, that is to say,—
The rules and regulations made on the 24th day of April, 1907, are amended as follows :-
I. By revoking Clauses IV (1) and IV (5), and substituting the following clauses therefor :
IV. (1.) Any candidate for admission as a barrister or a solicitor who shall have passed in the following subjects of the Entrance Scholarships Examination in the University of New Zealand by obtaining at least fifty per cent. of the maximum marks obtainable in each of such subjects shall be deemed to have passed the Examination in General Knowledge required to be passed by candidates for admission as barristers or solicitors. The subjects before referred to are Latin, English, and History, and any two other subjects of such examination to be selected by the candidate:
Provided that any candidate for admission as a barrister or a solicitor who shall have passed with credit the said Entrance Scholarships Examination in the said University passing in Latin as a subject, or who shall have passed the subjects Latin, English (or Mental and Moral Philosophy), Jurisprudence, and Constitutional History as prescribed for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws in the said University shall be deemed to have passed the Examination in General Knowledge required to be passed by candidates for admission as barristers or solicitors.
Any candidate for admission as a barrister or a solicitor shall be deemed to have passed the Examination in General Knowledge required to be passed by candidates for admission as barristers or solicitors if he shall have passed an examination or examinations of any University or College the standard of which examination or examinations is in the opinion of the Chancellor of the New Zealand University as high as the standard of the examination hereinbefore prescribed for candidates for admission as barristers or solicitors, and if such candidate shall have passed in Latin as one of the subjects of such examination or examinations.
IV. (5.) Every candidate who is required to pass the Examination in General Knowledge shall pass that examination before he is permitted to sit for the examination in law or any part thereof.
The preceding Regulation IV (5) shall not apply to any candidate for admission who prior to the coming into force of these regulations shall have passed his law examination in any subject, provided that such candidate shall complete all examinations necessary to qualify him for admission as a barrister or solicitor, as the case may be, within three years from the coming into force of these regulations.
II. By adding to clauses (10) and (14) of the said Rule IV the following words :—
“A candidate in Property II must pass either at the same examination as that at which he sits for the Law of Property II or at a subsequent examination in a paper to be termed “Conveyancing” testing the candidate's understanding and ability to prepare the following instruments (forms of a simple and usual character only): Agreements for sale and conditions of sale; conveyances and transfers of land and interests therein ; assignments of personality; hire-purchase agreements; mortgages and submortgages; leases; agreements for lease; under-leases; surrenders of lease; powers of attorney, bonds, partnership deeds, wills and settlements, appointments of new trustees.
“Until the candidate has passed such examination he shall not be credited with having passed the Law of Property, Part II.”
Dated this 21st day of October, 1925.
ROBERT STOUT, C. J.
W. A. SIM, J.
J. R. REED, J.
A. S. ADAMS, J.
H. H. OSTLER, J.

Regulations as to Drainage and Plumbing under the Health Act, 1920, applied to the Borough of Devonport. (H. 2/25.)

Department of Health,
Wellington, 19th October, 1925.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council made on the 3rd day of September, 1923, and gazetted on the 6th day of the same month, regulations (to be cited as “the Drainage and Plumbing Regulations”) were made under the Health Act, 1920, prescribing the conditions to be observed in the construction of approved drains, septic tanks, sanitary conveniences, and sanitary appliances:
And whereas by the said regulations it was provided that the same were suspended as provided in the said Act :
And whereas by section 133 of the said Act it is enacted that the operation of any such regulations may, if so provided therein, be wholly suspended until they are applied by the Minister by notice in the Gazette to any part of New Zealand:
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 said Act, do hereby apply the said regulations to the Borough of Devonport, and do hereby declare that this notice shall take effect on the 1st day of November, 1925.
F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Health.

Regulations as to Drainage and Plumbing under the Health Act, 1920, applied to the County of Uawa. (H. 2/25.)

Department of Health,
Wellington, 19th October, 1925.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council made on the 3rd day of September, 1923, and gazetted on the 6th day of the same month, regulations (to be cited as the “Drainage and Plumbing Regulations”) were made under the Health Act, 1920, prescribing the conditions to be observed in the construction of approved drains, septic tanks, sanitary conveniences, and sanitary appliances:
And whereas by the said regulations it was provided that the same were suspended as provided in the said Act :
And whereas by section 133 of the said Act it is enacted that the operation of any such regulations may, if so provided therein, be wholly suspended until they are applied by the Minister by notice in the Gazette to any part of New Zealand :
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 said Act, do hereby apply the said regulations to the County of Uawa and do hereby declare that this notice shall take effect on the 1st day of November, 1925.
F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Health.

Notice as to Use of Spark-arrester.

IN pursuance of section 2, subsection (1), of the Spark-arrester (Forests Act) Regulations, 1925, dated the 21st day of September, 1925, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 24th day of that month, I hereby give notice that I approve of the Cheney Spark Nullifier (Patent Nos. 47968 and 48732) for use under these regulations.
In pursuance of section 2, subsection (2), of the said regulations I likewise give notice that I order that an approved spark-arrester shall be used in all State Forests and fire districts throughout the Dominion during the periods on and from the 1st day of December, 1925, until the 30th day of April, 1926, and thereafter on and from the 1st day of October in any one year until the 30th day of April in the following year, commencing on the 1st day of October, 1926.
Dated this 27th day of October, 1925.
R. HEATON RHODES,
Commissioner of State Forests.

Appreciation of Value of German Securities.

Wellington, 19th October, 1925.
IT is notified for general information that legislation was recently passed in Germany providing for the appreciation of the value of certain classes of capital investments in Germany in cases where the investments had lost value owing to the depreciation of the German currency. The expression “capital investment” includes mortgages with or without time limits, liens secured over land, registered ships and railways, savings-bank balances, debentures (in certain cases), and claims under life-insurance policies.
The Consul for Germany at Wellington has now received advice from his Government that in extension of this legislation

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1925.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by William Thomson, Esq., of Ruapuke, Aotea, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies.
C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.