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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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hereto, all the powers conferred by the Act aforesaid, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Mangatainoka Domain Board, namely,—

JOSEPH POLGLASE,
ROBERT CADE,
HENRY WAGSTAFF,
CHARLES EDWARD BEETHAM, and
GERALD EUGENE MACLOSKEY

(hereinafter 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 second Wednesday in each month, at seven o’clock p.m., at Mangatainoka, 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 thirteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

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 second 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 21 acres 3 roods 5 perches, more or less, being Section No. 79, Block XVIII., Mangahao Survey District, in the Wellington Land District. Bounded towards the north-east by Sections Nos. 82 and 78, 1884 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 1100 links; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 84 and 80, 2077 links; and towards the north-west by a public road along the proper right bank of the Mangatainoka River, 1117 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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“The Education Act, 1877.”—Payments to Education Boards.

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GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of April, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby make the regulation hereto annexed regarding certain payments of capitation allowance to Education Boards; and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATION.

NOTWITHSTANDING anything to the contrary contained in an Order in Council made on the 5th day of January, 1888, under the provisions of “The Education Act, 1877,” relating (inter alia) to attendance registers and returns, the payment of capitation allowance to Education Boards for the quarter ending on the 30th day of June, 1896, shall be according to the working-average attendance of the quarter ending on the 31st day of March, 1896, as working average is defined by Order in Council dated the 5th day of July, 1887, and made under the provisions of the before-mentioned Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking certain Regulations under “The Stock Act, 1895,” and prescribing another.—Notice No. 439.

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GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth day of April, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE A. J. CADMAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Stock Act, 1893” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), 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 revoke the Order in Council, Notice No. 433, made under the provisions of the said Act, dated the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, prescribing certain ports at which Australasian stock may be landed, and prohibiting the introduction of cattle, &c., from Queensland and other Australian colonies, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations, namely,—

1. The introduction into the Colony of New Zealand from the Colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia of all cattle and sheep, and also of fresh meat (with the exception of frozen meat), bones, horns, hoofs, hair, hides, skins, offal, or other part of any such animals, and of all fittings which have been used in the transport of any such animals, is hereby absolutely prohibited, except under the following conditions:—

(a.) Cattle may be landed if accompanied by a declaration by the owner and a certificate by a veterinary surgeon, as provided in subsections one and two of section twenty-six of the general regulations, and shall be subject to a quarantine of ninety days:

Provided, however, that vessels en route to a foreign port with Australasian horses, cattle, or sheep on board may call at the port of Wellington for coal, and while there remain at a distance of not less than half a mile from the shore, subject to the like conditions as are prescribed by Regulation Thirty-one of the General Regulations under “The Stock Act, 1893,” dated thirtieth December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, with respect to foreign stock.

(b.) Sheep (except from Western Australia, which are prohibited) may be landed, if accompanied by a certificate by a veterinary surgeon that they are free from disease, subject to quarantine for a period of thirty days.

(c.) Artificial manures may be landed, but those composed of or containing blood or bones, or bones digested but uncrushed, must be accompanied by a declaration from the owner, secretary, or manager of the works where such blood or bones were treated, that they have been subjected to a heat of at least forty-five pounds indicated steam-pressure, equal to two hundred and seventy-four degrees Fahrenheit.

All artificial manures and bones to be put up in new bags.

(d.) Bones in a raw or green and uncrushed state to be landed and taken direct from the ship’s side to the manure-works, and there subjected to a heat from steam of at least forty-five pounds pressure per square inch, equal to two hundred and seventy-four degrees Fahrenheit.

The bags in which such raw or green bones are received must be either immediately destroyed or thoroughly boiled before again being used.

(e.) Hides may be landed if from cattle slaughtered for human consumption or boiling-down, and not from any animals which have died from a contagious or infectious disease, such hides to be thoroughly salted or otherwise chemically preserved.

2. Any person importing bones or hides under this regulation may be required by an Inspector to thoroughly disinfect any vehicle in which such bones or hides have been conveyed between the ship and the manure-works or tannery. The term “owner” shall for the purposes of these regulations have the meaning assigned to that term by “The Stock Act, 1893.”

3. Any person committing a breach of these regulations shall on conviction be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds, nor more than one hundred pounds.

4. So much of the General Regulations dated the thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, made under “The Stock Act, 1893,” and published in No. 3 of the New Zealand Gazette of one thousand eight