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R. At the adjourned committal proceedings R. was recalled, and H. was called. Their names subse quently appeared on the back of the indictment. At the trial of the appellant on the indictment the prosecution declined to call R. or H. R. was called for the defence. He was cross-examined on his previous statement to the police and at the committal proceedings. The trial judge did not direct the jury how they should approach R.'s evidence given at the trial. On appeal by the appellant against conviction : HELD—(i) The prosecution were entitled to take the view that R. and H. were wholly unreliable witnesses and that the interests of justice would not be furthered by calling them, and were entitled, in the exercise of the prosecution's discretion, to decline to call them. (2) The jury should have been directed on the proper approach to the evidence given by R. at the trial, and the direction should have included an intimation that his previous statements, sworn or unsworn, did not constitute evidence on which the jury could act; but since in the circumstances the jury must if properly directed, have reached the same conclusion, the conviction should stand. (Reg. v. Colder (1960) 3 All E.R. 457) applied. Appeal dismissed from the Central Criminal Court. (Reg. v. Oliva (1965) 3 All E.R. 116.) AGRICULTURE, LANDS AND FISHERIES SUBJECT MATTERS AND REFERENCE NUMBERS. Agriculture (Alteration of Names of Department and Title of Minister) Order 1965—146/1965. Grain Board (Assignment of Additional Function) Order, 1965—65/1965. Animal Remedies (Control of Certain Anti-Abortion Vaccines) Regulations 1965—112/1965. Committees of Agriculture (Officers' Travelling Expenses and Maintenance Allowance and Expenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1965—183/1965. Cork District Milk Board (Election Day 1965) Order 1965— 104/1965. Cork District Milk Board (Minimum Prices for Milk) Order, 1965—139/1965. Dairy Produce Marketing Act, 1961—yth September, 1965 nomination date.—9/1965. Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935. Maintenance of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Fund suspended as from 3ist March, 1965—47/1965. Diseases of Animals (Control of Certain Vaccinations and Extension to Brucellosis) Order, 1965—111/1965. Dublin District Milk Board (Minimum Prices for Milk) Fixed from ist October, 1965—138/1965. INDEX OF STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS Published since February 1965

Fisheries—Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions Transferred to Department of Agriculture from 3rd May, 1965—83/1965. Importation of Meat and Animal Products Allowed from France after ist August, 1965—148/1965 ; 200/1965. Noxious Weeds (Male Wild Hop Plant) Order, 1965—189/1965. Pigs and Bacon Acts Regulations—113/1965, 123/1965. River Erne (Special Local Licences) Higher Charges imposed after I4th June, 1965—131/1965. Sheep Dipping Order—105/1965. Western Agriculture Consultative Council Established— 174/1965. Wheat Order—1965—159/1965. CONTROL OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS COUNTY AND TOWN MANAGEMENT Cork County Borough (Extension of Boundary) Provisional Order, 1965 in force from ist July, 1965—141/1965. Housing Authorities (Loans for Acquisition or Construction of Houses) (Amendment) Regulations, 1965—137/1965. Local Elections Regulations 1965—128/1965. Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963— Regulations for Licensing the Erection or Construction of Specified Appliances Under the Act—76/1965. Donegal County—Camping Licences authorised in specified townlands—15 8 ^965. Trim Urban District (Alteration of Boundary) Order 1965— 168/1965. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE—EMERGENCY AND OTHER DUTIES Customs (Land Frontier) Regulations, 1965—84/1965. Iron and Steel Products—Customs Duty Suspended to 3 ist December, 1965—140/1965. Relief from Customs Duties (Fairs, Exhibitions and Similar Events) Under Brussels Convention of June, 1961— 143/1965. Relief from Customs Duties (Professional Equipment) Order, 1965—144/1965. Woven Woollen, Synthetic and Artificial Fabrics Order, 1965— 187/1965. EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT Electric Motors (Exclusion) Regulations—181/1965. Excepted Body Status Trade Union Act, 1941. Incorporated Law Society of Ireland—54/1965. Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland—55/1965. Veterinary Association of Ireland—56/1965. Flax Spinning Industry—Women may be employed to 10 p.m. —151/1965. Ice Cones and Wafers—Women may be employed to 10 p.m. —160/1965. Plastic Moldings—Women may be employed to n p.m.— 53/1965. Polythene Film Bags—Women may be employed between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.—152/1965. Leather Footwear—121/1965. Laminated Springs—38/1965. Brushes, Brooms and Mops—37/1965. Rubber boots and shoes—120/1965. Superphosphates—115/1965. Metal Wood Screws—119/1965.