GAZETTE NOTIFICATIONS

Otago Witness, Issue 3509, 14 June 1921, Page 23

GAZETT E NOTIFICATIONS

/ jq. I. Unhi d Pmrss Association.) WELLINGTON, June 9. To-night's Gazette notifies that 16.316 acres of land in the Auckland Land District has been set apart for selection. Amending regulations under the Explopives and Dangerous Goods Act gazetted enact that explosives must not be conveyed on a ship or a carriage propelled by an engine using as fuel dangerous goods, such as benzine, unless certain special precautions (prescribed) are observed. Consent is given to raising the following local loans:—s£ per cent., Invercargill

Borough Council; renewal of loans, £16,100. Utane Town Board, erecting workers’ dwellings, £5000; Rodney County Council, metalling Warkworth-Leigh road, £4500. The State lias guaranteed the Auckland £500.000 loan for electric power extension. Regulations are gazetted prescribing the procedure of rhe War Pensions Medical Appeal Board to provide that any applicant for a war pension who is dissatisfied with the board’s decision as to 11) the pension for any war disability; (21 uttributabilily to r aggravation by war service of any disability, or those attributable to war service. either d-rntly or indirectly. js entitled to lodge an appeal setting forth tlie grounds of dissatisfaction. The appeal must be lodged within two months alter the date of the decision of the War l*i tisicns Board has been notified to the applicant. An Order-m-Council provides for an extension of time in regard to patent, design and trade-mark rights, affected by the war section us passed, in order to give effect to the Agreement of Berne respecting the prtsei ration or restoration of right of industrial property affected by the world war. ihe regulations extend to July 25, 1921, the time lor making applications under section 129 cf the Patents Act, T9ll, and till January 25, 1922. as the time for paying any fee, filing any document, or taking any other action under that Act. Regulations constituting the three new military .districts- Northern Command or Auckland District, Central Command or Wellington District, and the Southern Command, combining tlie old Gurnet bury and Otago Districts—are gazetted. The time within which tiie Kauri Gum Industry Commission was to present its re* port has been extended till June 11.