Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland,
12th June, 1855.

SIR,—With reference to your Honor’s letter of the 21st ultimo, transmitting copy of a Resolution of the Auckland Waste Land Board (No. 27) by which it appears the Board are in doubt as to the definite meaning of my letter of the 14th ult. in reference to their suggestions that the necessary expenses of the Land Board should be paid by the General Government, I am directed by His Excellency the Officer administering the Government to state the Board was informed in that letter, through your Honour, that His Excellency could not interfere without exceeding his authority, although he would take upon himself the responsibility of doing so if it were indispensable. His Excellency, however, believed it was not so, as your Honour had it in your power to take upon yourself a similar responsibility, which responsibility was more within your sphere than within that of His Excellency.

I have, &c.,

(Signed) Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

His Honor the Superintendent
of Auckland,
Auckland.

Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
26th June, 1855.

An error of the press having been discovered in the date from which it was declared that the Rules and Regulations touching and concerning Public Slaughter Houses, should take effect and be in force; namely, the “fifty” day of June, in place of the “fifth” day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five; it has been deemed advisable to republish those Regulations, declaring that they shall take effect and be in force from and after the twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. It will be observed that two additional clauses are added to the republished Regulations.

Wm. Brown,
Superintendent.

RULES AND REGULATIONS
TOUCHING AND CONCERNING
PUBLIC SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
June 20, 1855.

In exercise of the powers vested in me, in that behalf, by the provisions contained in the sixth section of an Act of the local Legislature of the Province of Auckland, passed in the second session thereof, intituled “An Act to amend an Ordinance for Regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places,” I do hereby make and promulgate the following Rules and Regulations for the management of Public Slaughter-houses within the said Province, and for other purposes in the said section specified:

1. No Cattle shall be slaughtered on Sundays in any public slaughter-house within the said Province.

2. On all other days such houses shall be kept open during the hours hereinafter specified, for the slaughtering of cattle therein, and for skinning and dressing the carcasses of the cattle so slaughtered.

3. From the first day of May to the first day of November in every year, such hours shall be from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from the said first day of November to the first day of the month of May thence next ensuing, such hours shall be from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., provided that for the said purposes the said houses may be kept open three hours later on Saturdays, and may be opened two hours earlier on Mondays.

4. No cattle shall be slaughtered at any such house except during the times hereinbefore prescribed; and every such house shall be closed and securely fastened within one hour from and after the latest time to which, under these rules and regulations, the same may be kept open.

5. The keeper or lessee (as the case may be) of every such house shall cause the same to be kept clean, and to be washed out twice every day (Sundays excepted).

NOTICE.

DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS FOR THE CHILDREN OF EUROPEANS.

WHEREAS the Select Committee of the Provincial Council appointed to report on the subject of Education, recommended that pecuniary assistance should be given out of the Provincial funds to such of the Denominational Schools for the Education of Children of European origin (as might require the same) and that the funds to be appropriated for that purpose should be distributed amongst the several religious Bodies maintaining such Schools, in proportion to the number of pupils attending thereat respectively, such numbers to be ascertained by Quarterly Returns to be transmitted by the Superintendent to the respective Clergymen having the superintendence of such Schools; and whereas the sum of £1000 was on such recommendation appropriated to such purpose by the Local Legislature of this Province, and applications have been lately made to the Superintendent, on behalf of certain of the said Schools, for assistance out of the funds so set apart: Notice is hereby given that applications for such assistance, together with the necessary Quarterly Returns above mentioned for the Quarters ending 31st day of March and the 30th day of June of the present year respectively, giving the names and numbers of pupils in attendance during every week in each quarter, will be received at this Office on or before the 7th day of the month of July next ensuing.

Wm. Brown,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, June 20, 1855.