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The Applicants claim that they
have used the said Trade Mark in
respect of the said goods for 12 years
before the date of their said
Application.

Any person may within three
months from the date of the first
apperance of this Advertisement in
the Leeward Islands Gazette, give
notice in duplicate at the Trade
Marks Office, Antigua, of opposition
to registration of the said Trade
Mark.

J. D. B. RENWICK,

Acting Registrar of Trade Marks.

 

Applications are invited from quali-
fied persons (men or women) for
appointment as Administative Assist-
ants (Cadet) in the Administative
Service of the Government of Jamiaca.

The post is non-pensionable and
carries a salery of £500 a year.
Successful candidates, provided they
pass the prescribed medical examina-
tion, will be appointed on probation
for a period of three yearsand if their
service is satisfactory will be eligible
for appointment to the pensionable
post of Administrative Assistant
(£620-25-770-920): promotion to the
post of Administrative Assistant will
normally take place at the end of the
probationary period, but cadets show-
ing Administrative ability may he
considered for such promotion hefore
the end of this period.

Cadets will normally be attached on
appointment either to the Colonial
Secretary’s Office or to one of the
Ministries, and will be liable to
transfer between one Ministry and
another in order to gain experience.
Cadets may be required to take a
course of training in the United King-
dom after serving for about a year; this
training will usually take the form of
the Overseas Training Course “ A” at
Oxford or Cambridge; free passages to
and from the United Kingdom will
be provided and subsistence allowance
paid.

Candidates should possess a recog-
niaed University degree and should not
be less than 21 years of age or older
than 26 years of age at the date of
application. Applications in writing
should be forwarded to reach the
Colonial Secretary’s Office (Establish-
ments Branch), Kingston, Jamaica,
not later than the 30th of September,
1954.

J. W. H. O’REGAN,
Aoting Colonial Secretary,
Jamaica.

THE LEEWARD ISLANDS GAZETTE.

Vacant Post of Assistant
Director of Land
Settlement (Agricultural).

Applications are invited from suit-
ably qualified candidates wishing to
secure appointment to the vacant post
of Assistant Director of Land Settle-
ment (Agricultural), British Guiana.

2. The post carries a fixed pension-
able salary of £1,100 ($5,280) per
annum (scale A 12) plus a temporary
cost-of-living allowance at the rate of
£62. 10s. ($300) per annum, but the
emoluments offered may be increased
as a result of the general revision of
salaries.

3. The Agsistant Director of Land
Settlement (Agricultural) will be
required to assist the Director of the
newly established Land Settlement
Department in the implementaiion of,
and in the management and supervi-
sion of the land settlement schemes in
the Colony. The main initial duty of
the Department would be to study
and frame definite policies for adop-
tion by the Government with respect
of land settlement and tenure.

The officer will be required to
undertake the general supervision of
agricultural activities of settlers. He
shonld possess a recognised qualifica-
tion in Agriculture. FEixperience in
peasant agriculture with special
referenece to land settlements would
be an advantage.

4. The appointment would nor-
mally be pensionable, subject to the
candidate’s medical fitness and, where
necessary, to satisfactory service dur-
ing a probationery period of three
years, but the candidate could, if he
so preferred, ba appointed on a three
year contract which might be renewed
for a further period or periods. Un-
der present terms on the satisfactory
completion of his contract service, he
would be paid a gratuity calculated
at the rate 223% of basic salary for
each completed period of three
months’ service, including approved
leave.

5. The person selected for the
appointment will be subject to the
Colonial Regulations and to local Gen-
eral Orders and instructions in force
for the time being in so far as they
are applicable. An officer placed on
the pensionable Establishment will be
eligible for vacation leave at the rate
of five days for each completed month
of resident service up to a maximum
of six months, subject to the com-
pletion of a minimum tour of service
of two years. If married, a pension-

[5 August, 1954.

able officer would also be eligible for
the grant of assisted leave passages for
himself and his wife when granted
vacation leave, subject to the provi-
sion of funds annually by the Legis-
lature and to the requirements of
the Public Officers (Leave) Passages
Regulations, 1952.

6. In the cage of an officer selected
from overseas, free passages to the

“Colony will be furnished for himself

and his wife and children (if any) not
exceeding five persons in all provided
they either accompany him to British
Guiana or proceed to join him within
twelve months after the date of his
departure for the Colony. If he is
serving on contract, the officer and his
family, up toa limit of five persons,
will also be provided at the Colony’s
expense with passages back to the
country from which he was recruited
on the satisfactory conclusion of his
contract. He will also earn vacation
leave on the same basis as is Jaid down
in paragraph 5 above for an officer on
the Pensionable Establishment.

7. All applications must be ad-
dressed to the Chief Hstablishment
Officer, Central Secretariat, British
Guiana, and should reach hiro not
later than the 15th of August, 1954.
Copies and not originals of testi-
monials and certificates shonld be
submitted.

8. It should be noted that the
appointment of any person to this post
is subject to the approval of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies,
who may decide to select some other
candidate.

9. Applicants already in the em-
ployment of Government should sub-
mit their applications through the
normal official channels.

Establishment Department,
Central Seoretariat.

July, 1954.

(M. P. ©. 57/30/2),

 

RAINFALL FIGURES.

Central Experiment Station,

 

 

 

Antigua.

1950, 1951. 1952. 1953, 1954.
Jan. B4l 38.60 241 1.98 3,04
Feb, 2.52 1.88 1.60 1.02 2.45
Mar. 1.58 1.09 1.62 5.60 1,08
Apr. 2.44 2.16 3.14 2.06 AY
May 2.06 10.54 3.07 1.50 3.83
June 1.66 2.74 6.74 L3L 3.32
July 185 38.28 8.38 3.20 3.47

17.52 25.29 25.96 16.62 17.68