NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,

F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XIV.] THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1867. [No. LXXIII.]

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Sefton Moorhouse, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

WHEREAS by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it was provided that the Governor in Council might, by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the said Colony, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor in Council by the said Act, subject to such Regulations as he might think fit, and might from time to time rescind such delegation.

And whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to William Sefton Moorhouse, Esq., so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury the several powers vested in the said Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations issued by the Governor on the Eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and to any other Regulations to be from time to time duly made.

And whereas it has been made to appear to me that the disease called Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out amongst cattle in that portion of the Province of Canterbury to the west of the dividing Range:

Now, therefore, I, the said William Sefton Moorhouse, do hereby declare all that portion of the Province to be an Infected District within the meaning of the said Act; and I do hereby make the following Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle within the said Infected District, and for preventing the further spread of the aforesaid disease.

1. If any Inspector appointed under these Regulations or otherwise under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," for the infected district above referred to shall at any time have reasonable grounds to suspect that any cattle within the infected district above referred to are infected with pleuro-pneumonia, it shall be his duty, and he is hereby authorised forthwith, or as soon as he conveniently can, to proceed to and enter into and upon the place, whether such cattle enclosed or otherwise, where such cattle are or are supposed by him to be, and by inspecting such cattle, or in any other manner, shall satisfy himself whether such cattle or any of them are infected with pleuro-pneumonia, or whether the same are free from pleuro-pneumonia.

2. If such Inspector shall be satisfied that such cattle or any of them are actually infected with pleuro-pneumonia, he shall forthwith give to the owner or the person having the custody, charge, or possession of the said cattle, notice of which of the said cattle he deems actually infected with such disease; and such owner or person aforesaid shall, within twenty-four hours after such notice, destroy the cattle so deemed infected, and shall forthwith bury four feet under ground, or burn the carcasses of the cattle so destroyed; and if the owner or person having