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NOTICE

THE undersigned, having been appointed Inspector of Weights and Measures for this District, call the attention of Shop-keepers and the Public generally, to the necessity of having all Weights and Measures compared with the Standard ones in the possession of the undersigned, and stamped as required by the Ordinance.

The following Extracts are published for general information:—

"Any person who may be desirous of comparing or adjusting any Weights or Measures, shall have access to all such Copies or Models, as to be deposited as aforesaid, at all reasonable times, on payment of such fees as are hereinafter mentioned; and it shall be the duty of the respective persons, to be appointed by the Governor as shall be the safe keeping of such Copies or Models for the purposes of Weights and Measures for the purposes of reference, to compare every such Weight or Measure as shall be brought before them respectively, with such Copies or Models as aforesaid."

"For every such examination of any such Weights and Measures, the person authorised as aforesaid, shall shall make and be entitled to demand and receive of the person who shall cause the same to be made, the sum of Threepence for every Weight or Measure so compared, and no more."

"Every person in whose house, shop, mill, store, out-house, premises, stall or standing place, cart, wheelbarrow, or basket, any false or deficient balance, or any unstamped or unmarked Weights and Measures shall be found upon any such search as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every such Balance, Weight, or Measure, any sum not exceeding Ten Pounds, nor less than Five Shillings, as to the Convicting Justices shall seem meet; and all such false or deficient, unstamped or unmarked Weights and Measures shall, upon the conviction of any such person, be forfeited, and shall be broken or otherwise disposed of, as such Justices shall direct."

"Any person who shall refuse to produce his Balances, Weights or Measures in order to be viewed or examined, every person so offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, nor less than Forty Shillings, as the Convicting Justices shall adjudge."

WILLIAM LANGFORD,
Inspector of Weights and Measures.

Government Offices,
April 23, 1861.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor JOHN CHILTON LAMBTON CARTER, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council of Wellington, Session 3, No. 8, intituled an "Act to Amend and Consolidate the Law relating to Cattle Trespass and Impounding," it is enacted that the Superintendent may from time to time, by Proclamation, declare any Pounds to be, or cease to be, Public Pounds, within the meaning of the said Act, and may, from time to time, in like manner, appoint, suspend, remove, and re-appoint Keepers of such Pound.

Now therefore, I, JOHN CHILTON LAMBTON CARTER, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's Bay, Do Hereby Proclaim the Pound erected on Government Land, between Wellesley Road and the Sea, to be a Public Pound, within the meaning of the above mentioned Act, and that

JAMES SWAIN,
of Napier, shall be the Keeper thereof.

Dated this Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-one.

J. C. LAMBTON CARTER,
Superintendent.

TENDERS.

THE following Tenders—Metalling part of Hastings Street, Sinking a Well, Fencing around Burial Reserve, Building a Boat for Waipureku Ferry, and erecting Waipawa Court House, are published for general information:—

Tenders Accepted.

Metalling part of Hastings Street.—
Mr. P. Searles, for the sum of £6 19s.

Sinking Well near Carlyle Street.—
Mr. P. Searles at the following rate—first 15ft., 5s. per foot; second 15ft., 8s. per foot; third 15ft., 10s. per foot; with £7 15s. added for windlass, &c.

Fencing round Burial Reserve.—Mr. P. Searles, for the sum of £59.

Building a Boat.—Mr. J. Thompson, for the sum of £15.

Erecting Waipawa Court House.—Messrs. Holt and Berry, for the sum of £196 10s.

Tenders Rejected.

Metalling part of Hasting Street.—Mr. T. Lingard, £7 10s. per