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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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6. Every license for a vessel or boat shall contain the name of such vessel or boat, and shall specify the number of passengers such vessel or boat is licensed to carry.

7. A condition of every such license shall be that the applicant shall keep such vessel or boat fully equipped with proper gear and in a seaworthy condition, and properly marked as required by these regulations.

8. All vessels and boats shall have their names painted in legible characters on each bow.

9. The Harbourmaster or person appointed by the Minister may at any time inspect or measure any vessel or boat, or test the accuracy of any measurement, and may appoint the time, place, and manner when, where, and in which such measurement or inspection shall be made; and, if he finds that these regulations are not duly complied with, he may suspend or cancel the license for any such vessel or boat.

10. The expense of measuring or remeasuring and of marking such vessels and boats shall be borne and paid by the owner or owners of such vessels; and if any such expense has been incurred by the Harbourmaster or other person appointed by the Minister no license shall be issued until the owner has repaid the same to him.

11. No vessel or boat shall carry more passengers than the number allowed in the license.

12. All licenses shall be issued for such periods only as shall expire on the 31st December in any year; but these may be renewed year by year at the discretion of the Harbourmaster or person appointed by the Minister.

13. The fee for each license shall be £1, and it shall be paid to the Harbourmaster or other person appointed by the Minister before the issue of the license. Applications for renewal of licenses must be sent to the Harbourmaster on or before the date of expiration.

14. Any person committing a breach of any or either of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Sitting of Court of Appeal.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1899.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. MCKENZIE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Court of Appeal Act, 1882,” it is enacted that the Court shall hold its sittings at such times and places as shall from time to time be fixed by the Governor in Council, and proclaimed in the Government Gazette twenty-one days at least before the times so fixed respectively:

Now, therefore, 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 fix that a sitting of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington, upon Monday, the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the memorial of ownership bearing date the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said memorial of ownership on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 25 acres 1 rood 19 perches, more or less, situate in the Ohinemuri District, in the Provincial District of Auckland, being the land known as Te Mutu, held under memorial of ownership, dated the 3rd June, 1880, in favour of Ngahipi and others, and containing the following restrictions: “The above-named owners under this memorial may not sell or make any other disposition of the said land except that they may lease the said land for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, in possession, and not in reversion, without fine, premium, or forfeit, and without agreement or covenant for renewal, or for purchase at any time.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

W. C. WALKER,
For Native Minister.

Warrant authorising the Pohangina County Council to construct Protective Works in connection with a Bridge over the Oroua River at the Boundary between the Counties of Pohangina and Kiwitea, and apportioning the Cost of the Protective Works.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that, in any case where the local authority of any district desires to construct a bridge in any position that will, in its opinion, be of advantage and benefit to the whole or any considerable portion of the inhabitants of an adjacent district or districts, as well as to the inhabitants of its own district, and where it is, in the opinion of such local authority, reasonable that the local authority of such adjacent district or districts should contribute to the cost of constructing or establishing the said bridge, the provisions in the said section mentioned shall have effect: And whereas the said section, inter alia, provides that the construction of a bridge includes protective works:

And whereas the Pohangina County Council has made application to the Governor to authorise the construction of an addition to the length of the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as “the said work”), and to apportion the cost of constructing the said work between the said County Council and the Kiwitea County Council:

And whereas by the said Act it is further provided that the Governor may, with the view of determining whether or not the work should be done, or what proportion, if any, of the cost of the same should be borne by any local authority, or what local authority should do the work, direct any person to be a Commissioner to inquire and report to him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to enable him to determine any such question as aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed and an inquiry duly held: And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor after due inquiry his opinion that such addition to the length of the bridge should not be constructed, but that certain protective works in lieu thereof at the eastern end of the bridge should be constructed: And whereas the local bodies concerned have agreed thereto:

And whereas the Governor is of opinion that such protective works should be constructed:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby authorise the Pohangina County Council to construct the said protective works; and I do hereby declare that the cost of constructing the said protective works—less such amount, by way of contribution, as may be provided by Government—shall be borne by the said Councils in the following proportions—namely, two-thirds shall be borne by the Pohangina County Council, one-third by the Kiwitea County Council—and such proportions shall be paid by the said local authorities accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

The bridge over the Oroua River, situated on the road between Birmingham and Apiti, at the boundary between the Counties of Pohangina and Kiwitea.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1881,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony