1814
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 85

(f.) Animal manures (except bones in a raw or green state, which are prohibited) may only be landed provided such manures have been subjected for at least two hours to a moist heat of a temperature of not less than 250 degrees Fahrenheit, equal to an indicated steam-pressure of 30 pounds per square inch. All animal manures to be put up in new bags.

(g.) Hides (except from Queensland and Western Australia, which are prohibited) may be landed and taken direct from the ship’s side to a tannery approved of by the Inspector, and there manufactured into leather, if from cattle slaughtered for human consumption or boiling-down, and not from animals which have died from disease, such hides to be thoroughly salted.

2. No stock, animal manures, bones, or hides shall be landed in New Zealand unless the same are the produce of a “clean” colony as defined by No. 14 of the General Regulations—namely, “Any Australasian Colony shall, as regards any particular kind of stock, be deemed a clean colony if the introduction of that kind of stock, or of stock of a different kind but liable to be infected with the same disease, is not prohibited from such colony in terms of these regulations, or with respect to which there are no grounds for prohibiting the introduction of any such stock; and no stock shall be introduced into this colony but from a clean colony.”

3. Any person intending to introduce animal manures or hides into this colony shall give the Inspector of Stock at port of landing not less than forty-eight hours’ notice of his intention (Form B).

4. All animal manures and hides shall be accompanied by a declaration from the owner, secretary, or manager of the works where treated, and also by a certificate from an Inspector of stock or veterinary surgeon, in the form or to the effect of Form C in the Schedule hereto.

5. No manures or hides shall be landed without the written permit of an Inspector (Form D).

6. The Inspector may submit samples of any manure to an analyst duly appointed under “The Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880,” for report; and if, in the opinion of the said analyst, such manure has not been treated as prescribed, it shall be treated, dealt with, or disposed of as the Minister shall direct.

7. 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 after leaving the ship. The Inspector may also detain for a reasonable time any bones, hides, or manures so imported, pending inquiry, and the report of an analyst if necessary.

8. All expenses of every description incurred in connection with the importation and treatment of manures, hides, &c., shall be paid by the owner to the Inspector within twenty-four hours after demand.

9. 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 five hundred pounds.

SCHEDULE.

FORM A.

Declaration by Owner, and Certificate of Health by Inspector.

I, [Name and address], do solemnly and sincerely declare that the under-mentioned stock are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, free from all infectious and contagious diseases; that they have not, within the preceding six months, been in direct or indirect contact with stock infected with any such disease; and that they are the produce of ____, and have during the whole of the preceding months been in a clean Australasian Colony. And I further declare that the vessel by which the stock are to be shipped is a clean Australian vessel.

Particulars of Stock.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act [Here state under what Act this declaration is made].
(Signed.)

Declared before me, at , this day of , 19, J.P.

I have examined the stock referred to, and have no reason to doubt the correctness of this declaration in any particular; * and I do hereby certify that the part of the vessel on which they are to be penned has been specially cleansed as required by me.

, Inspector of Stock.

Date:

I have examined the stock referred to, and do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that none of the said stock are infected with any infectious or contagious disease,

, Veterinary Surgeon.†

Date:

• This is only necessary in connection with sheep.
  † Inspection by veterinary surgeon is only required in the case of cattle, swine, goats, deer, and other ruminants.

FORM B.

To the Inspector of Stock.

TAKE notice that it is my intention to introduce into this colony, from , per “” (expected to arrive at on the day of ____), the under-mentioned animal manures, which have been treated as required by Regulation 1, (f).

, Owner [or Agent].

FORM C.

In the matter of a consignment of , shipped from , in the Colony of , to , in the Colony of New Zealand, per “____.”

I, [Name, address, and occupation], of , in the Colony of , do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare,—

1. That the under-mentioned ____ have been subjected to the treatment prescribed in New Zealand with respect to landed or intended to be landed in such colony from an Australasian Colony.

2. That such are wholly the produce of the Colony of , being the colony from which they are now being shipped to New Zealand.

Particulars.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland entitled “The Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.”
(Signed.)

Declared before me, at , in the Colony of , this day of , 19____.

I have no reason to doubt the correctness of the above declaration in any particular.

, Inspector of Stock [or Veterinary Surgeon].

Date:

FORM D.

To the Landing-waiter at ____.

PLEASE allow , belonging to , which has arrived by the “” from , to be landed.

, Inspector of Stock.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.