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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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There will also be allowed 3s. in addition for each night such witnesses are necessarily detained from their own houses, except when travelling by sea.

RULE 68.—SCALE TO BE USED IN SURVEYS.
The following are the scales to be used in surveys:—

Working Plans.

Town sections, or sections under half an acre .. .. 2 chains or 1/40 mile to an inch.
Suburban sections .. 5 " 1/16 " "
Rural sections .. 10 " 1/8 " "
Minor triangulations .. 40 " 1/4 " "
Topographical .. 40 " 1/2 " "
Meridional circuit .. 320 " 4 " "
Reconnaissance and major triangulation .. 160 " 2 " "
Index maps .. .. 80 " 1 " "

Copied or Compiled Plans.

Town or village selection maps .. 5 or 10 chains to an inch.
Town or village Crown-grant record maps .. .. .. 2 " "
Rural selection maps (after survey) 10 " "
(before survey) 40 " "
Crown-grant record maps (rural) .. 20 " "
Territorial maps .. .. .. 4 or 8 miles "

Extreme Areas contained in Plans.

Workings plans of town sections .. 7/10 mile square.
" rural sections .. 3 1/2 miles "
" minor triangulations 12 1/2 " "
" topographical .. 12 1/2 " "
" reconnaissance and major triangulations .. .. 112 " "
" meridional circuit .. 112 " "

The following forms of oaths have been approved by the Judges for use in the Court:—

INTERPRETERS' OATH.

You shall well and truly interpret the oaths to be administered to the witnesses and the evidence they shall give before the Court in the several matters and proceedings before the Court during its present sitting, and all such other matters as the Court may from time to time require you to interpret from the English language into the Maori language, and from the Maori language into the English language, to the best of your skill and ability. So help you God.

OATH OF WITNESS.

Ko nga korero ka koreroia e koe inaianei mo nga putake e whakahaeretia nei ki te aroaro o tenei Kooti hei te pono, hei te pono katoa, hei te pono anake—a ma te Atua koe e awhina.

AFFIRMATION.

E ki pono ana ahau ko aku korero ka korero nei mo nga putake e whakahaeretia nei ki te aroaro o tenei Kooti he pono, he pono katoa, he pono anake.

As witness my hand, this fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
H. G. SETH-SMITH,
Chief Judge.

Approved in Council, 15th March, 1890.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Interpreters' Fees.

Native Office,
Wellington, 18th March, 1890.
The following scale of fees, approved by the Hon. the Native Minister, to be charged by Native Interpreters, is published for general information.
W. J. MORPETH,
(For the Under-Secretary.)

Scale of Fees for Licensed Interpreters.

Native Land Court. £ s. d.
Interpreter's fee, per diem .. .. 2 2 0
Interpreter's fee, when engaged as agent, not less than £1 1s. or more than £3 3s. per diem.
Interpretation of deed or other instrument, each time 1 1 0
Translating any deed or other instrument, either into the Maori or English language, for first three folios of 90 words, each folio .. .. 0 7 6
Next three folios of 90 words, each folio .. 0 5 0
Each additional folio of 90 words .. 0 2 6
Writing fair copy of same, per folio of 90 words .. 0 2 0
Searching records in Native Land Court, exclusive of Court fees .. .. .. 0 10 6

Fees in any other Court.
Interpreter's fee, not less than 10s. 6d., or more £ s. d. than (if engaged in one case), per diem, £2 2s.
Translating any document required in proceedings either into the Maori or English language, the first 50 words .. .. .. .. 0 5 0
The next two folios of 90 words, each folio .. 0 7 6
The next three folios of 90 words, each folio .. 0 5 0
For every additional folio of 90 words, each folio 0 3 4
Writing fair copy of same, per folio of 90 words .. 0 1 0
Translating accounts required in proceedings, for each folio of 90 words (numerals not to count) .. 0 3 4
Composing and writing any document into Maori, per folio of 90 words .. .. .. 0 5 0
Attendance as a witness in any Court, per diem or fractional part of a day .. .. .. 1 1 0
Commission on paying rent to Natives, 7 1/2 per cent., and not less than 2s. per any one block.

1. No Interpreter is to charge fees exceeding those published in scale, excepting in agency cases, when fees may be regulated by agreement entered into in writing.

2. No Interpreter shall be allowed to receive fees from both parties to any transaction in which he may be employed.

3. Any breach of these rules will render the Interpreter liable to have his appointment cancelled, on complaint being made to the Native Minister.

Shooting Season for Native Game to commence 1st May.

ONSLOW, Governor.

In exercise of the powers vested in me by "The Animals Protection Act, 1880," and the Acts amending the same, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that native game, excepting tuis, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the said colony—except on or around Lake Takapuna, in the County of Waitemata; in the Borough of Greymouth; on or around the Wairau lagoons and Grassmere Lake, in the County of Marlborough; and on the Lyell Creek, County of Kaikoura, between Lyell Bridge and the sea—from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
W. R. RUSSELL,
Colonial Secretary.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of "The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888," I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

WILLIAM McKECHNIE,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under "The Post Office Act, 1881," at Dungarville, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two hundred and thirty-fourth section of "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."

As witness my hand, at Auckland, in the colony aforesaid, this seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
ONSLOW.

Member of Government Officers' Guarantee Board appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1890.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY SCOTT MCKELLAR, ESQ.,

to be a Member of the Government Officers' Guarantee Board, under "The Government Officers' Guarantee Act, 1870," to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of the late W. Seed, Esq.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1890.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and to be Vaccination Inspectors, for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
HENRY JEFFRIES .. .. .. .. Helensville.
CHARLES JAMES NORTON .. .. .. Castlepoint.
W. R. RUSSELL.