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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

2. As regards steamships, that merchant ships belonging to the said German Empire which are propelled by steam or any other power requiring engine room, the measurement whereof shall, after the said 1st day of January, 1873, have been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other national papers of such steamships, testified by the dates thereof, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted on such registers or other national papers, in the same manner, and to the same extent, and for the same purpose, in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of British ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships. Provided, nevertheless, that if the owner or master of any such German steamship desires the deduction for engine room in his ship to be estimated under the rules for engine-room measurement and deduction applicable to British ships instead of under the German rule, the engine room shall be measured and the deduction calculated according to the British rules; and that, in the event of any such steamship possessing a certificate of tonnage or other national paper issued as aforesaid on or after the 20th day of June, 1888, denoting the net registered tonnage of such ship under the British rules, the ship shall be deemed to be of the tonnage so denoted thereon.

And whereas by section 84 of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,” it is enacted that, whenever it appears to Her Majesty the Queen in Council that the tonnage regulations of that Act have been adopted by any foreign country, and are in force there, Her Majesty in Council may order that the ships of that country shall, without being remeasured in Her Majesty’s dominions, be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers, in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship:

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty in Council that the tonnage regulations of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,” have been adopted by the Government of His Majesty the German Emperor, and such regulations are now in force in the German Empire, having come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1895:

And whereas there still are or may be ships belonging to the German Empire to which the hereinbefore-recited Order of the 23rd July, 1889, may apply, and it is expedient not to revoke the same, but to let the said recited Order remain in force so long as there are any ships to which the same may so apply:

And whereas the provisions of section one of “The Rules Publication Act, 1893,” have been complied with:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance and exercise of the powers hereinbefore mentioned, is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to direct that the merchant ships of the German Empire the measurement whereof shall, after the 1st day of July, 1895, have been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other national papers of such ships, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers, in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship.

C. L. PEEL.

By-laws for the Control of Traffic over the Brunner Railway-bridge, on the Brunner-ton-Greymouth Railway (in Substitution of Regulations previously issued).

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and “The Public Works and Government Railways Act Amendment Act, 1895,” I, Alfred Jerome Cadman, the Minister for Railways, do hereby make the following by-laws for regulating the traffic on and over the Brunner Railway-bridge, which said bridge forms part of the railway between Greymouth and Brunnerton, and is used both for ordinary and railway traffic; and, in further exercise and pursuance of the said powers, do revoke all by-laws and regulations in force at the date hereof authorising or regulating traffic on and over the said bridge.

SCHEDULE.

1. No foot-passenger shall cross, or attempt or commence to cross, the Brunner Railway-bridge at Brunnerton, except on the footway provided for the purpose above the railroad.

2. No person shall at any time drive or take across the said bridge any horses, sheep, pigs, or cattle, without first obtaining the consent of the Stationmaster at Brunner, who shall at all times regulate such traffic.

3. No person shall have any right to drive or take on or across such bridge, at any time, any vehicles, horses, or live animals; but he may be permitted by the Stationmaster to do so at such times as the bridge is unoccupied for railway traffic; provided such permission will not interfere with the apparatus or appliances for working the bridge, or injure or interfere with the structure of the said bridge, or interfere with the railway traffic in any way.

4. No person shall take any load upon any cart or other vehicle upon the bridge which exceeds in the gross weight one ton upon any one wheel.

5. Any person who commits a breach of any of these by-laws shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding £10 for each such breach.

6. So far as applicable, and except as modified by these by-laws, the General By-laws and Regulations for the time being respectively in force and affecting the traffic on the New Zealand Government railways shall extend and apply to the said Brunner Bridge, and to traffic on and over the same.

Dated this 26th day of May, 1896.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

Notice under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act Amendment Act, 1895,” appointing an Hour for closing on Saturday Night.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 26th May, 1896.

IN exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon me by “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act Amendment Act, 1895,” and in accordance with a requisition signed by a three-fifths majority of the shopkeepers in the Borough of Hamilton, I, Richard John Seddon, Minister of Labour, hereby intimate that, from and after the 6th day of June, 1896, all the shops in the said Borough of Hamilton shall be closed on the evening of Saturday in each week at the hour of nine of the clock.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.

Bonus for Destruction of Rabbits.—Notice No. 436.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, N.Z., 14th December, 1895.

A BONUS of £1,000 is offered for a practical scheme for the destruction of rabbits.

The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, New Zealand, and must reach him not later than 31st May, 1896. Each application must be accompanied by a full description of the means proposed to be adopted.

2. The Government shall appoint a committee of three or more experts, to whom all applications shall be submitted. Such committee shall, after perusal, state what schemes they deem worthy of further consideration, and are satisfied may be used with absolute safety.

On completion of the committee’s preliminary investigations each applicant will be notified of the decision arrived at, and whether or not his individual scheme will be further inquired into.

The committee may afterwards inspect the whole or any of the schemes at any place or places within the colony, or may direct that the whole or any of them be submitted for trial at such time and place as they may think fit.

The following shall be a basis of the trial:—

1. A suitable piece of rabbit-infested land shall be allowed to each applicant (of whose scheme the committee have approved), and on which he will have full power to carry out a trial of his scheme for a period not exceeding two years.

2. Each applicant on expiry of the period named shall submit a detailed and accurate statement of the actual cost incurred in testing his scheme.

On the expiry of the period named the committee shall as soon as convenient thereafter (should they deem it necessary) make a personal inspection of each applicant’s allotment, and shall take into consideration—

1. The actual cost incurred by each applicant in testing his scheme for the period above mentioned.

2. The result of the work done on each allotment.

On completion of the tests the committee shall furnish a report to the Minister on all the schemes which they have examined or tested, and shall state—

1. The scheme which they consider on the whole the most practical, efficient, and economic; and if they consider such scheme worthy of the bonus.

2. Whether, in the event of no one scheme being entitled to the whole bonus, they deem any one worthy of a part, and, if so, how much.