Numb. 64.
1035

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1881.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1881.

Quarantine Regulations.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the ninety-second section of "The
Public Health Act, 1876," the Governor is
authorised from time to time, as he thinks fit, to
make, vary, alter, or revoke regulations concerning
quarantine, and the prevention of infection from the
time of vessels arriving at any port or place in New
Zealand, or within one league's distance of the coast
of New Zealand, from or having touched at any place
proclaimed by the Governor under the first portion of
the said section as infected with any infectious or
contagious disease highly dangerous to the health of
the people, or from the time any persons or things
whatsoever shall have been received on board any
vessel or boat receiving any person or thing whatso-
ever from or out of any such vessel:

And whereas in pursuance of such power, His
Excellency the Governor of New Zealand is desirous
of making the regulations hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Honorable
Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, doth hereby make and pass the
following regulations, that is to say,-

1. In any case where a vessel arrives as afore-
   said from a place so proclaimed as aforesaid with a
   certificate under the hand of a duly-constituted
   authority that small-pox did not exist on any person
   on board such vessel at the time of sailing, and when
   no case of small-pox has developed itself among the
   persons on board such vessel during the voyage, if,
   after the inspection referred to in the one hundred
   and seventh section of the said Act, no symptoms of
   small-pox are discovered on such vessel by the Health
   Officer if a medical practitioner, or by a medical
   practitioner assisting the Health Officer in such in-
   spection, then such vessel shall be admitted to
   pratique: Provided that any person on board of
   such vessel who does not consent to be or is not
   successfully vaccinated after the arrival of the said
   vessel in quarantine, and before landing, unless he
   shall be exempted therefrom by the before-mentioned
   Health Officer or medical practitioner, upon the
   ground of his having been successfully vaccinated
   within a sufficiently recent time in the opinion of the
   said Health Officer or medical practitioner, shall be
   detained in quarantine under observation until a
   period of sixteen full days shall have elapsed from
   the time of the vessel having left the place so pro-
   claimed as aforesaid.

2. In cases where small-pox has appeared on board
   any vessel during the voyage, the period of the in-
   cubation of such disease shall be deemed to be fifteen
   full days, and such vessel shall be detained in quaran-
   tine for the period of sixteen days from the latest
   date on which, owing to the appearance of small-pox
   on board such vessel, it was, in the opinion of the
   Health Officer, or medical practitioner as aforesaid,
   possible for any person on board such vessel to have
   been infected with the said disease; but in the case
   of any person on board such vessel who does not
   exhibit symptoms of the said disease, and who while
   in quarantine is vaccinated successfully, the period
   of detention in quarantine may be shortened in the
   discretion of the Health Officer or the said medical
   practitioner.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this ninth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one.

THOMAS DICK.

Fixing Sittings of District Court of Westland.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Arthur
Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that a
sitting of the District Court of Westland shall be
held as follows:-

In the Resident Magistrate's Courthouse at West-
port, for criminal and civil business, on the twenty-
sixth day of August instant.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this eighth day of August, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.