Numb. 44.
531

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1879.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1879.

Proclaiming Crossing-places under "The Sheep Act,
1878."

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section forty-four of "The Sheep
Act, 1878," it is enacted that the Governor
may from time to time, by Proclamation to be pub-
lished in the Gazette, appoint one or more place or
places, at or adjacent to the inland boundaries of
any district, at some one or other of which places all
sheep to be introduced by land into any such district
shall be crossed over such boundaries:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do
hereby appoint the places mentioned in certain regu-
lations relating to sheep issued under an Order in
Council, of date the seventeenth day of this current
month of April, to be places at which all sheep to
be introduced by land into the several sheep districts
in the aforesaid regulations respectively mentioned
shall be crossed over the boundaries of such districts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
the Government House, at Wellington,
this eighteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Regulations and Table of Fees, and Crossing-places,
under "The Sheep Act, 1878," to come into opera-
tion on May 1, 1879.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of April, 1879.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section six of "The Sheep Act,
1878," it is enacted that all appointments
theretofore duly made, and all rules, regulations, and
tables of fees relating to any matters affected by the
said Act in force in any part of the colony at the
time the said Act takes effect, and which shall not be
inconsistent with the express provisions of the said
Act, shall be deemed to have been duly made and
fixed under the said Act, and shall continue in force
until the same shall be revoked under the authority
thereof:

And whereas by section seven of the said Act it is
enacted that the Governor in Council may from time
to time make, amend, and abolish rules and regula-
tions for the instruction and guidance of all officers
appointed under the said Act, and for the general
management of offices, and may fix the fees that shall
be payable to any person in respect of any duty per-
formed by such person under the said Act, and as to
all other matters of detail for carrying the said Act
into full effect, so far as the same are consistent
therewith and are not therein provided for by ex-
press enactment; and such regulations, upon being
gazetted, shall have the force of law as if expressed
in the said Act:

And whereas by section forty-four of the said Act
it is further enacted that the Governor may from
time to time, by Proclamation to be published in the
Gazette, appoint one or more place or places, at or
adjacent to the inland boundaries of any district, at