THE GAZETTE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21215, 9 December 1938, Page 8

THE GAZETTE

Latest Notifications A Diverse List By Teletfraph—Press Assoclattar WELLINGTON. December 8. Regulations having particular application to yachtsmen ir. New Zealand waters are issued with to-night's Gazette. They are the masters and mates regulations, number nine, and deal with the qualifications necessary for the issue of yachtsmasters’ certificates. Under the old regulations it was not necessary for an applicant for a yachtsmaster’s certificate to have spent any specified time at sea,, his qualifications for seamanship being tested actually on his seamanship at the time cf the examination. Now it will be necessary for the applicant to have served for at least three years in a seagoing yacht before he can qualify for his ticket, and the old qualificatioii of ownership or part ownership of a yacht has been eliminated. In the r.ew regulations yacht clubs throughout the Dominion will be required to vouch for the fact that applicants who are members of their clubs have ser.ed the necessary three years in a seagoing yacht before sitting for their examinations.

A recent decision in the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington, stipulated that bottle dealers came within the scope of certain of the second-hand dealers regulations. This had somewhat farreaching effects on be.tie dealers and necessitated their entering all transactions in bottles in a register in, the same manner as a second-hand dealer enters his transactions. Regulations have been issued obviating the necessity for bottle dealers entering their ransactlons in this manner.

Regulations providing for the collection of annual statistical returns from picture theatre proprietors are contained In the census and statistics of cinematograph theatre regulations. These are on the same lines as factory production returns which are collected by the Census and Statistics Department- and make provision for returns on such matters as the seating capacities of picture theatres, admission charges, length and number of programmes, length of films shown per annum, wages and the number of employees, and the number of British and foreign films shown, etc. Regulations are gazetted extending the exemption from the provisions of Industry Licensing Amendment Notice, 1938, of the dry cell manufacture industry, cement manufacture, fish export industry and oyster dredging industry from December 31, 1938, to January, 1940. Dr. T. W. J. Johnson has been appointed a member of the Medical Council under the Medical Practitioners’ Act, 1914.

The second division of the Appeal Court will sit at Wellington on March 13, 1939. The first division of the Court will sit on June 12, 1939, and the second division will hold a further sitting commencing on September 11, 1930, according to a notice appearing in the Gazette.