204 Journal op the Department of Agriculture. 



Veterinary Research. 



Owing to Mr. R. E. Montgomery's impending transfer to the Uganda Protectorate. Sir 

 Arnold Theiler will again assume control of the Division, together with the Veterinary 

 College which is being established at Onderstepoort. 



Horticultural Division. 



Mr, Tribolet, the Chief, proposes to visit the following centres, leaving Pretoria on the 

 3rd of May and returning on the 2f|th. Lectures will be given in places where they can be 

 arranged and farms visited where convenient : — Warmbaths, Nylstroom. Haakdoorn, Pot- 

 gietersrust, Pietersburg, Zoelcmakaar, Bandolierkop. Tiouis Trichardt, Mara, Diiivelskloof, 

 Tzaneen-Haenertsburg, Acornhoek, Godwan River. 



Agricultural Education. 



Mr. A. C. Pigott, Farm Manager, Potchefstroom School of Agriculture, has returned to 

 duty after a period of long vacation in the United Kingdom. Mr. E. Baker, B.Sc, Lecturer 

 in Botany, Elsenburg School of Agriculture, proposes leaving shortly on a six months' visit 

 to England. 



NOTES FROM THE "GAZETTE." 



Attention is drawn to the following matters of interest which appeared 

 in the Union Govemmpnt Gnzette.: — 



(Abbreviations: " Proc." — Proclamation; "G.N." — Government Notice.) 



Gazette. 



No. Date. Items. 



1027 18/2/20 The duty on wheat in the grain, wheaten flour, and wheaten 

 meal, and maize in the grain ; as imposed in Class I of the 

 First Schedule to Act No. 26 of 1914, has been temporarily 

 suspended (by the Govern or-Genei*al) until Parliament 

 passes suitable legislation during the present session. 

 (G.N. No. 303.) 



1032 12/3/20 The Governor-General has approved of the reduction of the stock 

 rate in the Kentani District from Is. 6d. to Is. G.N. 

 No. 914 of 1919 is amended accordingly. (G.N. No. 429.) 



1032 12/3/20 The compulsory dipping of cattle in the three-day and five-day 



1034 19/3/20 dips respectively has been ordered in certain portions of 



1036 26/3/20 the Dundee, Ixopo, Umvoti, Estcourt, Ngotshe, Camper- 



1040 9/4/20 down, Paulpietersburg, Butterworth, Idutywa, Umzimkulu. 



Willowvale, Queenstown, Mount AylifF, Zoutpansberg, 



Pietersburg, and Lydenburg Districts. (G.N. Nos. 424, 



449, 486, 544, 565, 613.) 



1039 1/4/20 The compulsory dipping of sheep has been ordered in Carnarvon 

 District (G.N. No. 450), Rouxville and Bethulie Districts 

 (G.N. No. 462), and Maclear District (G.N. No. 559). 



1034 19/3/20 The Department of Native Affairs publishes regulations for the 

 eradication of various noxious weeds in the Shiloh Mission 

 Station, in the Division of Queenstown, and in the Esson 

 Mission Station, Uitenhage Division, under the Mission 

 Stations and Communal Reserves Act, No. 29 of 1909 (Cape), 

 the regulations to be carried out by the Boards of Manage- 

 ment of the above locations. (G.N. No. 468/9). 



1034 19/3/20 It is notified that the importation of maize and barley, under 

 permit referred to in Proclamation No. 33 of 1920, will 

 only be allowed in small quantities as seed intended foi 

 sowing, and then only when the introduction is deemed 

 desirable. Further requirements are also laid down under 

 which permits are to be applied for. (G.N. No. 506 — 

 17/3/20.) 



