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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

nor for any loss or damage whatsoever by reason of
accidental or unavoidable delays in transit or otherwise.
40. No claim for loss or damage will be allowed
unless specified in writing, and made within two days
after delivery in case of partial loss or damage, or
within seven days after the due time of delivery in
case of total loss.
41. The General Manager will refuse to receive
for carriage any goods which in the judgment of the
officers of the railway may be of a dangerous nature;
and senders of any dangerous articles will be held
accountable for any damage arising therefrom, unless
the contents shall have been declared at the time of
delivery.
42. Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perish-
able articles not taken away within six hours after
arrival at the station to which they are consigned
may be forthwith sold, by auction or otherwise,
without notice to the sender or consignee; and pay-
ment or tender of the net proceeds of any such sale,
after deduction of freight and expenses, shall be
accepted as equivalent to delivery.
43. All empties not taken away within one month
after arrival will be sold to defray expenses.
44. All goods are received and will be held by the
railway subject to a general lien for money due, not
only for the carriage of such goods, and for wharfage
and warehouse rent, but also for any general balance
that may be due for the owner. And in case any
goods should not be claimed within three calendar
months after their arrival at the station to which they
are consigned, they will be sold by auction or other-
wise, and the proceeds applied towards satisfaction
of such general lien and expenses.
45. All goods and merchandise, whether bonded or
free, and all luggage, having arrived at its destina-
tion, shall be removed by the consignees from the
platform and sheds within twelve working hours; and
any free goods, merchandise, or luggage not removed
by that time, may be stored at the risk and expense
of the consignees or owners, and will become subject
to such charges as may from time to time be duly fixed
with respect to the railway; and any bonded goods or
merchandise which shall not be removed within the
period aforesaid shall be subject to the payment of
the sum of two shillings per ton per day until the
removal of the same from the railway premises.
46. Any goods, merchandise, or luggage, arriving
at any station, which shall not be removed from the
railway premises within twelve working hours, may be
stored at risk and expense of the consignee or owner.
47. All tolls and charges and warehousing charges
must be paid immediately to the person duly author-
ized to receive the same.
48. The above conditions, numbered from 39 to
48, both inclusive, apply to all parcels and goods
received by the proper officers of the railway at the
offices and warehouses thereof, wherever situate.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Napier to Waipukurau Railway—Spit to Hastings.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Governor in Council may make orders from time to
time directing that the provisions thereinafter in
Second Part of the said Act contained, or any of
them, be put in force in New Zealand, or in such
parts thereof or in such places therein as in such
orders respectively may be expressed, and may in
like manner revoke or renew any such order; and,
subject to revocation or renewal as aforesaid, every
such order shall be in force for six calendar months
from the publication of such order, or for such
shorter period as in such order shall be expressed,
and no longer; and every such order shall be pub-
lished in the General Government Gazette, and such
publication shall be conclusive evidence of such order
to all intents and purposes; and none of the said
provisions shall be in force in any part of New
Zealand until an order directing the same to be put
in force shall have been made and published as
aforesaid:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council, and in exercise and pur-
suance of all power and authority in this behalf in
him vested, doth hereby direct that the provisions
contained in the sections of the said Act numbered
from twenty to forty-five, both inclusive, shall be put
in force in the Town of Invercargill.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Sections 21 to 45 of the Public Health Act to be
in force in certain districts, Auckland Province.

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of December, 1874.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS by the nineteenth section of "The
Public Health Act, 1872," it is enacted that
the Governor in Council may make orders from time
to time, directing that the provisions thereinafter in
that part of the said Act contained, or any of them, be
put in force in New Zealand, or in such parts thereof
or in such places therein as in such orders respectively
may be expressed, and may in like manner revoke or
renew any such order; and, subject to revocation or
renewal as aforesaid, every such order shall be in
force for six calendar months from the publication of
such order, or for such shorter period as in such order
shall be expressed, and no longer; and every such
order shall be published in the General Government
Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive
evidence of such order to all intents and purposes;
and none of the said provisions shall be in force in
any part of New Zealand until an order directing the
same to be put in force shall have been made and
published as aforesaid: And whereas by an Order
in Council bearing date the fifth day of June last,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the
eighteenth day of June last, His Excellency the then
Governor did thereby, in exercise and pursuance
of all power and authority in that behalf in him
vested, direct that the provisions contained in the
sections of the said Act numbered from twenty-one to
forty-five, both inclusive, should be put in force in
those districts of the Province of Auckland men-
tioned in the Schedule to the said Order in Council:
And whereas the period of six calendar months within
which the said Order in Council should remain in