Aug. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 997

except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Lawrence Domain Board, namely,—

The Resident Magistrate, Lawrence, ex officio,
The Mayor of Lawrence, ex officio,
James Clark Brown,
Jonas Harrop,
Horace Bastings,
James Docherty,
Peter Miller,
John Thompson, and
Edward Herbert

(herein referred to as “the Board”), subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Wednesday in each month, at two o’clock p.m., at Lawrence, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Wednesday, the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, or by any two members of the Board, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any three of the said Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the third Wednesday in January in every succeeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

6. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may, at any monthly or special meeting, appoint a Chairman.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Certain Provisions of “The Arms Act, 1880,” suspended in the North Island.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Arms Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby suspend, as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the operation of all the provisions of the said Act in so far as they relate to the sale or purchase by any European or Europeans of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, lead, caps, or shot, for mining, sporting, or any useful or harmless purpose, in the district contained within the North Island and the adjacent smaller islands; and doth hereby further declare that from and after the date aforesaid the fee of one pound, payable in respect of a dealer’s license in the Form B in the First Schedule to the said Act shall no longer be chargeable: And in exercise of the like powers, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, His Excellency doth hereby make and prescribe the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto as those upon which ammunition for the purposes aforesaid may henceforth be obtained by aboriginal natives within the district aforesaid.

SCHEDULE,
REGULATIONS.

In these regulations the following terms and expressions shall, if not inconsistent with the context, have the meanings hereby attached to them, viz. :—

“ The said Act” means “The Arms Act, 1880.”
“ Native applicant” means “aboriginal native,” as defined by section 2 of the said Act.

1. Any Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs, or officer of police may, in his discretion, grant a permit to any Native applicant to purchase not more than two pounds of powder, twenty pounds of shot, and five hundred caps.

2. The rights granted by every permit shall be exercised within one month from the time of granting such permit.

3. Every permit shall be signed by a Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs, or officer of police, and shall bear upon it the date on which the same is granted. No particular form of words shall be necessary.

4. Every permit shall be granted free of cost.

5. Every licensed dealer shall, before delivering any ammunition to any Native applicant, require such applicant to sign a receipt, in words at length, without the use of any numeral figures, for the quantity of each sort of ammunition he shall receive from such dealer, with his name and address, and date of the day of receiving such ammunition. Failing in any of these particulars, the dealer shall refuse to deliver to the purchaser any of the ammunition, and shall refund any money paid for the same.

6. If any such dealer shall sell or dispose of any ammunition, with or without price or reward, to any other person, without taking such receipt, or shall within any one month sell or dispose of to the same person any quantity of ammunition exceeding the quantity mentioned in Regulation 1 hereof, the Governor may thereupon exercise his power of cancelling or withdrawing the license of such dealer.

7. Every such receipt as aforesaid shall be given by the purchaser, on receiving the ammunition, to the dealer, who shall keep the same.

8. The particulars of the receipt shall be copied by the dealer into the book required to be kept by such dealer under the provisions of section thirteen of the said Act.

9. Every receipt shall be produced, on demand, to any Licensing Officer or person duly authorized by him to require the same.

10. Any Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs, or officer of police may, in his discretion, grant to any Native applicant a permit for an increased quantity of ammunition not exceeding twenty-five pounds of gunpowder, and a proportionate quantity of shot and caps, when satisfied that it is required for the destruction of rabbits upon stations and the like, and that it will be used for those purposes. Every such sale of an increased quantity of ammunition under this regulation shall, so far only as the same relates to the receipt to be taken by the dealer, be subject to the Regulations numbered 5 to 9 hereof inclusive.

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

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Public Vaccinator, Tauranga District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALFRED GINDERS, Esq., M.D.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the Tauranga District.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Superintendent and Matron, Nelson Lunatic Asylum, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE WHITE and
ELIZABETH WHITE

to be Superintendent and Matron of the Nelson Lunatic Asylum, vice Mr. and Mrs. Mills, deceased.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Public Vaccinator, Mahurangi District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES CAMPBELL, Esq., M.D. and M.S., McGill Univ., Montreal,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the Mahurangi District.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Librarian, General Assembly Library, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES COLLIER, Esq., M.A.,

to be the Librarian to the General Assembly Library, vice A. Macgregor, Esq., M.A.,

P. A. BUCKLEY,