EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLV, Issue 36, 8 September 1920, Page 545

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From New Zealand Gazette , 1920, pages 2546, 2551, and 2594.) Certified Home under the Reformatory Institutions Act, 1909. ROBERT STOUT, Administrator of the Government. WHEREAS by section three of the Reformatory Institutions Act, 1909 (hereinafter termed the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor-General, on the application of any person or society (whether incorporated or not) desirous of establishing or maintaining a reformatory home, may, by Warrant gazetted, if satisfied as to the fitness of the home and of the person or society proposing to establish or maintain it, certify it as a reformatory home under the said Act : And whereas the Christchurch Diocesan Mission Council is desirous of establishing ’ and maintaining a reformatory home at Styx, Christchurch, and has made application accordingly : Now, therefore, I, Robert Stout, the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, being satisfied of the fitness of the home proposed to be established,' do hereby certify the building at Styx, Christchurch, as described in the Schedule hereto, to be a reformatory home under the said Act.

SCHEDULE. St. Anne’s, Styx, Christchurch. All that building, containing twelve rooms, with appurtenances thereto, situate on part of Rural Section No. 243, Christchurch Survey District, containing 89 acres 2 roods 33 perches, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 258, folio 127. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 10th day of August, 1920. E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence. THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in receiving money as the consideration for an assurance or agreement implied to pay money on events relating to horse-races, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or by any fictitious or assumed name), shall be registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand. SCHEDULE. Patrick Joseph Flanagan, New Plymouth. Dated this 17th day of August, 1920. J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

New Zealand Clearing Office Announcement.— German Debts. Wellington, 30th August, 1920. THE Controller of the Clearing Office desires to warn the public that the Imperial authorities advise attempts are being made by German agents or principals to obtain direct settlement or payment of their pre-war debts from their British creditors. By the terms of the Treaty of Peace Order, 1920, it is unlawful for any person to pay or accept payment of a debt coming within the provisions of Article 296 of the Treaty of Peace of Versailles, and communication between the parties interested as debtor or creditor is forbidden. Any person contravening this provision is liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he had been guilty of the offence of trading with the enemy. Severe penalties are similarly imposed by German law on German nationals contravening this provision of the Treaty. Persons or firms to whom overtures have been or may be made for the settlement of pre-war debts except through the Clearing Office are requested to communicate immediately full particulars to the Controller of the New Zealand Clearing Office, Public Trust Office, Wellington. New Zealand nationals who are creditors of German nationals in respect of pre-war debts, and who have not yet notified their claims to the Clearing Office, should do so before the 30th September, 1920, after which date no such claims will be considered. ROBERT TRIGGS, Controller, New Zealand Clearing Office.