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Schedule A. to these regulations sets out the Form of Application 

 for a Licence, and Schedule B. gives the Form of Licence to be used. 

 On the back of this Licence, Sections i, 2, 3, and 4 of the Arsenic Act, 

 185 1, and Section 17 of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, are to be printed. 

 Schedule C. is the Form of Application for Renewal of Licence, and 

 Schedule D. is the Form of Renewal of Licence. 



Carbolic Acid Preparations. — The Poisons and Pharmacy Act makes 

 no change in the position of carbolic acid preparations. 



Preparations of carbolic acid for use as sheep wash or for any other 

 purpose in connection with agriculture or horticulture, contained in a 

 closed vessel distinctly labelled with the word " Poisonous," the name 

 and address of the seller, and a notice of the special purposes for which 

 the preparations are intended, are excluded from Part II. of the Schedule 

 to the Act, and may consequently be sold by persons other than phar- 

 maceutical chemists. 



The Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and Technical 

 Instruction for Ireland, by a minute dated April 23rd, 1909, has ap- 

 pointed a Departmental Committee to inquire 

 Departmental into and interpret the principal forms of trade 

 Committee on Dairying, description (as denned by Section 3 of the 

 Merchandise Marks Act, 1887) at present 

 applied, in the United Kingdom, to different grades of butter, and to 

 suggest what additional measures, if any, it is desirable for the depart- 

 ment to take in the interests of the Irish butter industry, with special 

 reference to the prevention of loss or injury to the industry from the 

 use of false trade descriptions. 



The Committee will consist of J. R. Campbell, Esq., B.Sc, 

 Assistant Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Ireland (Chair- 

 man); Professor T. Carroll, M.R.I. A., Agricultural Inspector, 

 Department of Agriculture, Ireland ; E. G. Haygarth Brown, 

 Esq., Superintending Inspector, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; 

 Right Hon. the Earl of Carrick, Inspector for Irish Produce in Great 

 Britain, Department of Agriculture, Ireland; A. Poole Wilson, Esq., 

 Inspector of Dairying, Department of Agriculture, Ireland. Mr. D. J. 

 McGrath is appointed Secretary to the Committee. 



During the four months from June to September the Meteorological 

 Office will, as in past years, supply forecasts of weather by telegraph 

 to persons desirous of receiving them, upon 

 Harvest Weather payment of the cost of the telegrams. The 

 Forecasts. forecast will contain twelve words, and the 



cost will be 6d., with %d. for each word in 

 the address. These forecasts are despatched at 2.30 p.m. each day, and 

 refer to the probable weather of the 24 hours commencing with mid- 

 night of the day of issue ; but forecasts are also prepared at other 

 hours, and can be sent in lieu of the afternoon telegrams on payment 

 of is. 6d. per week in addition to the cost of the telegrams. 



Applications for the forecasts should be sent to the Director, Meteoro- 

 logical Office, 63 Victoria Street, London, S.W., with a cheque or 

 postal order to cover the cost of the telegrams for the period, which 



