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1921, No. 11.—The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1921. —The object of this Act is the making of better provisions for the appointment of the nominated and acting nominated members of the Court of Arbitration, and for the summoning of acting nominated members to act as the nominated members. 1921, No. 12.—The Hunter Gift for the Settlement of Discharged Soldiers Act, 1921.- This Act makes provision for the administration by a special Board of moneys derived from the sale or Lease of certain lands conveyed as a gift to the Crown by Sir George Hunter, M.P., for the settlement of discharged soldiers. 1921, No. 13.—The Land-tax Amendment Act, .1921. —This Act amends section 5 of the Finance Act, 1921, by making provision for the granting of a rebate of 10 per cent, for prompt payment of land-tax payable under that section. 1921, No. 14. —The Cook Islands Amendment Act, 1921. —This Act makes various amendments of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and provides, inter alia, for the following matters: (1) The election of members of Island Councils as representatives of the European population ; (2) imprisonment for abduction of girls under the age of eighteen years ; (3) adoptions by Native custom in certain cases, and the adoption of children by Natives; (4) grounds of divorce (which are to be (hose for the time being existing in New Zealand), and extending the divorce jurisdiction of the High Court; (5) restricting the purposes for- which intoxicating liquor may be sold to medicinal, sacramental, and industrial purposes: (6) restricting banking; (7) applying section 32 of the Board of Trade Act, 1919, to the Cook Islands ; (8) enabling Resident Commissioners to sell island products on behalf of planters. 1921, No. 15. —The Orchard-tax Amendment Act, 1921. —This Act extends for five years the operation of the Orchard-tax Act, 1916. 1921, No. 16. —The Samoa Act, 1921.—This Act makes permanent provision for the government of Samoa. It supersedes as from the Ist April, 1922, the Samoa Constitution Older made under the authority of the Treaties of Peace Act, 1919, and of His Majesty's Western Samoa, Order in Council, 1920, and for the most part is a statutory enactment of the provisions of the Constitution Order. The Act provide a code of law for the government of Western Samoa, and is divided into Parts as follows : Part 1, the Executive Government of Samoa ; Part 11, the Legislative Government of Samoa; Part 111, the High Court of Western Samoa; Part IV, the Supreme Court of New Zealand; Part V, Criminal Offences; Part VI, Criminal Procedure; Part VII, Law of Evidence: Pari VIII, Crown Suits; Part IX, Land; Part X, Marriage; Tart XI, Divorce; Pari XII, Persons of Unsound Mind; Part XIII, Intoxicating Liquor; Part XIV, Loads; Part XV, tin; Laws of Samoa —General Provisions; Part XVI, Transitory Provisions. 1921, No. 17- The Impresl Supply Act, 1921 (No. 2).—This Art applies the sum of £3,787,300 out of the Public Account, and the sum of £72,000 out of other specified accounts, for the year ending the 31st day of March, .1922. The sum of £6,500 is transferred lo the Scenery Preservation Account. 1921, No. 18.—The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921.—This Act is a consolidation and amendment of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911, and the other enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act, and incorporates amendments of Ihe Imperial law made in the Trade-marks Act, 1919, and the Patents and Designs Act, 1919. The Act is divided into Parts as follows: Part I, Patents; Part 11, Designs; Part ill, Trade-marks; Part IV, General. 1921, No. 19. —The Customs Amendment Act, 1921.- This Act, besides being an amendment of the ('ustoms Act, 1913, abolishes all existing duties of Customs and excuse, and substitutes those set out in the schedules to this Act, the new Customs tariff being container lin the First Schedule. The Customs tariff is, in effect, three different tariffs- the British Preferential Tariff, the Intermediate Tariff, and the General Tariff. The British Preferential Tariff is applied to goods the produce or manufacture of some part of His Majesty's Dominions; the Intermediate Tariff to goods the produce or manufacture of any country (whether part of the British Dominions or not) to which that tariff is applied by Order in Council; and the General Tariff to all dutiable goods to which neither the British Preferential nor the Intermediate Tariff applies. While the Governor-General may by Order in Council apply the Intermediate Tariff to any part of the British Dominions, section 6 provides that he shall not apply the General Tariff to the United Kingdom. Section 7 enables the imposition of duties corresponding with the duties imposed on New Zealand goods. Section 8 authorizes the modification by the Governor-General of the three tariffs within these limits —that no such modification shall impose higher duties than those contained in the General Tariff or less than those; contained in the British Preferential Tariff. Section 9 contains provisions as to suspended duties. Section 11. makes provision for a dumping duty for the protection of local industries. Section 12 empowers the Governor-General, in certain special cases, to alter the tariff in protection of local industries. Section 13 (which is amended by section 18 of the Finance Act, 1922) makes provision for the imposition of a special duty on goods imported from countries with depreciated currencies. Section 14 provides for the imposition in certain cases of a special duty on the importation of goods from foreign countries. By section 16 the production of an invoice with a certificate of origin thereon is made a condition precedent to entry of goods at preferential rates, and by section 17 importers on making entry of goods an; required to state the country of origin of such goods. Section 23 contains special provisions as to valuation of goods for assessment of Customs duties. Section 28 provides for a refund of duty on materials used in the construction of ships, launches, yachts, or boats in New Zealand, but such refund is restricted to duty paid on materials the produce or manufacture of some part of the British Dominions, unless the materials used could not have been obtained at a reasonable price in the British Dominions.