Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1767
high-water mark, or at such place as may be approved of by
the Minister, or by any person appointed by the Minister for
that purpose.
10. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under
this Order in Council shall continue to be in force for fourteen
years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such
rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or
revoked by competent authority; and the licensee shall not
assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the written consent of the Minister first obtained.
11. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any
time resumed by the Governor, without payment of any
compensation whatever, on giving to the licensee six calendar months' previous notice in writing. Any such notice
shall be sufficient if given by the Minister and delivered at
or posted to the last known address of the licensee.
12. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which the
said wharf may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through
any default or neglect on his part.
13. In case the licensee shall-
(1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions herein-
before set forth, or any of them;
(2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period
of thirty days;
(3.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought
under the operation of any Act for the time being
in force relating to bankruptcy; or
(4.) Fail to pay the sum specified in clause 3 of these
conditions,
then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council,
and every license, right, power, or privilege, may be revoked
and determined by the Governor in Council without any
notice to the licensee or other proceeding whatsoever; and
publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in
Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice
to the licensee, and to all persons concerned or interested,
that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and
privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked
and determined.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Regulations under "The Government Advances to Settlers
Act, 1894."
GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this third
day of December, 1894.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority
vested in him in and by "The Government Advances to
Settlers Act, 1894," and of all other powers and authorities
enabling him in this behalf, 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 make the several regulations set forth in the
Schedule hereto, and doth declare that such regulations
shall come into force and take effect on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.
SCHEDULE.

1. "The said Act" means "The Government Advances to
   Settlers Act, 1894."
   "The Superintendent" means "the Government Advances
   to Settlers Office Superintendent" under the said Act.
   "The General Board" means "the Government Advances
   to Settlers Board" under the said Act.
   "The Advances to Settlers Office Account," and "the Advances to Settlers Office," mean respectively "the Government Advances to Settlers Office Account" and "the Government Advances to Settlers Office."
   "The bank" means the bank appointed by the Governor
   under section 46 of the said Act to keep "the Advances to
   Settlers Office Account."
2. The Advances to Settlers Office shall be situated at the
   seat of Government, in such premises as the Colonial
   Treasurer from time to time directs.
3. The office shall be open for public business daily from
   9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., except on
   Saturdays, when it shall close at 1 p.m., and it shall not be
   open at all on Sundays, Good Friday, and Christmas Day,
   nor on such other days or times as shall be duly declared or
   appointed by Government to be public holidays.
4. The General Board shall meet for the despatch of business at such times and in such offices as shall be appointed
   by the Superintendent or by adjournment of a previous
   meeting.
5. Where the members present at a meeting of the General
   Board are equally divided on any question, the question shall
   be resolved in the negative.
6. There shall be a seal of the Advances to Settlers Office,
   which shall be of a circular form, of the diameter of one
   inch and one-half of an inch, having the Royal arms, with
   the words "New Zealand" underneath, in the centre, and
   around the same the words "Government Advances to
   Settlers Office," in Roman letters, 3in. in length; and a
   new seal may be made, with the consent of the Colonial
   Treasurer, as occasion shall require.
   The seal shall be kept at the Advances to Settlers Office,
   and in the custody of the Superintendent, under lock.
7. The minute-book in which the proceedings of the
   General Board shall be recorded shall be kept under the
   direction of such Board, and the minutes, when duly read
   and confirmed, and duly signed by the Chairman, shall be
   receivable as prima facie evidence of the various matters set
   forth in such minutes.
8. The cheques signed by the Superintendent on the
   Advances to Settlers Office Account shall be deemed to be
   sufficiently countersigned by the Audit Office in being
   countersigned by an Audit Officer, whose signature the
   Auditor and Controller-General may authorise the bank to
   accept.
9. The amounts payable within the colony out of the
   Advances to Settlers Office Account may be forwarded by
   the Superintendent to the Postmaster-General, to be paid by
   such Postmasters as the Superintendent may request, and
   as the Postmaster-General may authorise or direct to make
   such payments, and the Postmasters shall pay such amounts
   accordingly.
10. Every claim upon the Advances to Settlers Office
    must be made in the form and rendered in the manner
    required by the Superintendent.
11. Any person making a lodgment with a Postmaster of
    money payable to the Superintendent, or to the Advances to
    Settlers Office Account for credit of that account, shall enter
    and furnish the Postmaster, in two copies of the form
    required by him, with the particulars of the lodgment, and
    the Postmaster shall sign and deliver back to such person
    in acknowledgment of the receipt of the lodgment one of the
    two forms.
12. In any case which is not provided for by the said
    Act, or by the regulations thereunder, the special instructions
    of the Superintendent must be applied for and followed.
13. The manager of the bank shall make up at the close of
    business every day the pass-book of the Advances to Settlers
    Account, and send the same to the Superintendent, and at
    the same time send to the Auditor-General a statement showing the total receipts into, payments out of, and the balance
    of such account at the close of each day.
14. The mark of any payee unable to write, and the mark
    or signature of every Maori, must be witnessed by a person
    who, not being the paying officer or agent, is conversant with
    the English language.
15. A claimant unable personally to apply for payment
    may, by a special or general order on the form which the
    Superintendent may supply for the purpose, authorise the
    payment to be made to an agent. The special order shall be
    on or attached to the claim, but the general order shall be
    recorded in the Advances to Settlers Office, and quoted on
    each of the claims to which it may apply.
16. In the case of a special or general order given by a
    Maori not conversant with the English language, it must be
    certified, on the authority of a licensed interpreter, that he
    has translated the contents of the authority to the Maori,
    and that the latter understood them.
17. One month's pay at an annual salary shall be calculated at one-twelfth of such salary. Pay for a period less
    than a month shall be computed by multiplying the month's
    pay by the number of days in such period and dividing it by
    the number of days in the month.
18. Where wages or allowances are fixed by the day, the
    total number of days within the period shall be taken, unless
    it is stated that the working-days only are to be allowed.
19. The officer or agent authorised to pay a claim on the
    Advances to Settlers Office must be satisfied before paying it
    that the applicant for payment is entitled to receive the
    amount, and that any necessary document has been produced.
20. No claim on the Advances to Settlers Office shall be
    paid until it has been, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent or his paying agent, proved and certified to be correct, as may be required by the Superintendent, and
    receipted by the claimant or by the claimant's duly-authorised agent, and until the signature of the payee has
    been attested when such attestation is required by the
    Superintendent.
21. The officers and agents of the Superintendent will be
    held responsible for all errors in calculation of the accounts
    or claims which they certify to be correct, and for any loss
    due to their neglect of these regulations, or of the instructions given by the Superintendent.