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(v) To reconstitute the Pharmacy Board so as to ensure the inclusion of two representatives of employee members of the Pharmaceutical Society, and also a member qualified in law ;

(vi) To set up a Pharmacy Plan Industrial Committee under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act to appoint a Director of Pharmacy and to carry out the plan, the committee to comprise seven members appointed as follows :—

Nominated by the Government .. .. 3
Nominated by the Pharmacy Board * .. 2
Nominated by the U.F.S. Dispensaries * .. 1
Nominated by the employees * .. .. 1
* Members of the Pharmaceutical Society.

(vii) That the appointment of the Director of Pharmacy be subject to the approval of the Bureau of Industry ;

(viii) To provide for administration expenses and the development of any necessary compensation fund by the collection of levies from retail chemists on a broad basis of annual turnover ;

(ix) That the Industrial Committee shall—
(a) Make recommendations to the Bureau on the issue and transfer of licenses ;
(b) Investigate and formulate methods of improved buying for retail pharmacists ;
(c) Introduce a uniform system of prescription charges and supervise the observance of such charges ;
(d) Organize and administer, as the Government may require, the Pharmaceutical Section of any national health insurance scheme ;
(e) Act as an advisory Pharmaceutical Standards Committee in association with the New Zealand Standards Institute ;
(f) Conduct a survey and classification of pharmacies ;
(g) Arrange amalgamations and transfers, and make recommendations to the Bureau for the administration of the Compensation Fund ;
(h) Ensure an adequate supply of apprentices and also to ensure facilities for their training ;
(i) Take steps to co-ordinate merchandising methods and to modernize pharmacies ;
(j) Arrange for standard packing and simplification of stocks ;
(k) Promote goodwill advertising ; and
(l) Make recommendations for the control of quackery.

(x) To confine to pharmacists the retail sale of all substances included in the British Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmaceutical Codex, and governed by the Sale of Food and Drugs Act and regulations thereunder, except the schedule of substances given in the plan.

(NOTE.—Provided that the list of substances set out in the specific group (a) may be subject to minor revision by the Government when making necessary regulations or enacting legislation accordingly.)

(xi) To recommend to the Hon. the Minister of Health that all formulæ of proprietary medicines be registered.

(xii) That no hawker’s license be issued unless it is associated with or supported by the name of a substantial firm having a permanent place of business.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 29th day of November, 1937.

D. G. SULLIVAN,
Minister of Industries and Commerce.

Defence Rifle Club disbanded.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 19th November, 1937.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment of the undermentioned defence rifle club :—

Coromandel Defence Rifle Club,
with headquarters at Coromandel.

Date of disbandment: 11th November, 1937.

W. E. PARRY, for the Minister of Defence.

C

Extension to New Zealand of Convention between the United Kingdom and Iraq respecting Legal Proceedings in Civil and Commercial Matters.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th November, 1937.

I T is hereby notified for general information that the Convention between the United Kingdom and Iraq regarding Legal Proceedings in Civil and Commercial Matters, signed at Bagdad on the 25th July, 1935, and in respect of which notifications were exchanged at London on the 18th November, 1936, has been extended to the Dominion of New Zealand pursuant to the provisions of Article 17 of the said Convention as from the 24th August, 1937.

The authority to which requests for service or for the taking of evidence are to be transmitted is the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and communications should be addressed to the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington, in the English language.

The text of the said Convention is set out hereunder.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

CONVENTION.

His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of Iraq, being desirous to render mutual assistance in the conduct of legal proceedings in civil and commercial matters which are being dealt with or which it is anticipated may be dealt with by their respective judicial authorities, have resolved to conclude a Convention for this purpose, and have appointed as their plenipotentiaries—

His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India :

For Great Britain and Northern Ireland :

Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Bagdad ; and

His Majesty the King of Iraq :

Nouri Pasha El Said, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Order of the Rafidain I Class Military.

Who, having communicated their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows :—

I.—PRELIMINARY.

Article 1.

(a) Except where the contrary is expressly stated, this Convention applies only to civil and commercial matters, including non-contentious matters.

(b) In this Convention the words—

(1) “ Territory of one (or the other) High Contracting Party ” shall be interpreted (a) in relation to His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, as meaning England and Wales and all territories in respect of which the Convention is in force by reason of extensions under Article 16 or accessions under Article 17 ; and (b) in relation to His Majesty the King of Iraq as meaning Iraq :

(2) “ Persons ” shall be deemed to mean individuals and artificial persons :

(3) “ Artificial persons ” shall be deemed to include partnerships, companies, societies, and other corporations :

(4) “ Subjects of a High Contracting Party ” shall be deemed to include artificial persons constituted or incorporated under the laws of the territory of such High Contracting Party :

(5) “ Subjects of one (or of the other) High Contracting Party ” shall be deemed (a) in relation to His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, to mean all subjects of His Majesty wherever domiciled, and all persons under his protection ; and (b) in relation to His Majesty the King of Iraq, to mean all persons of Iraqi nationality.

II.—SERVICE OF JUDICIAL AND EXTRA-JUDICIAL DOCUMENTS.

Article 2.

(a) In Part II of this Convention the expression “ country of origin ” means the country from which the documents to be served emanate, and the expression “ country of execution ” means the country in which service of documents is to be effected.