May 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 985

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.
   And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in respect of the parcel of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 16 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Rural Section No. 43, Block II., Waiopenu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Horowhenua East Road; towards the south-east by Section No. 44; towards the south-west by Section No. 44; and towards the north-west by Section No. 41: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Waiopenu Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of April, 1901.

Present:
The Honourable W. C. Walker presiding in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Wellington Land District, and known as the Waiopenu Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 16 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Rural Section No. 43, Block II., Waiopenu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Horowhenua East Road; towards the south-east by Section No. 44; towards the south-west by Section No. 44; and towards the north-west by Section No. 41: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating District Electors Roll, Borough of Tauranga.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of April, 1901.

Present:
The Right Honourable R. J. Seddon presiding in Council.

WHEREAS it has been made to appear that the district electors roll of the Borough of Tauranga was prepared and completed after the times required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and it is expedient to validate the same:
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, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” doth hereby declare that the district electors roll of the Borough of Tauranga for the year commencing from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one, so made as aforesaid, shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been made within the times required by the said Act, and regulations made thereunder.

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

Validating District Electors Roll, Borough of Waimate.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of April, 1901.

Present:
The Right Honourable R. J. Seddon presiding in Council.

WHEREAS it has been made to appear that the district electors roll of the Borough of Waimate was prepared and completed after the times required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and it is expedient to validate the same:
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, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” doth hereby declare that the district electors roll of the Borough of Waimate for the year commencing from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one, so made as aforesaid, shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been made within the times required by the said Act, and regulations made thereunder.

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

Extending the Close Season for Seals.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of April, 1901.

Present:
The Right Honourable R. J. Seddon presiding in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations (which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters and places specified therein) for prescribing, among other things, a close season for seals, and for extending any close season so prescribed:
And whereas it is further provided by the said Act that every person who, during any close season for seals, takes any seals is liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, and in addition thereto is liable to a further penalty, not exceeding twenty pounds, in respect of every seal so taken:
And whereas by Order in Council, dated the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the months of January, February, March, April, May, and June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, were prescribed a close season for seals:
And whereas by Order in Council, dated the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred, the said close season for seals was extended up to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and one:
And whereas it is desirable to further extend such close season for seals:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth order that such regulations shall have force and effect throughout the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and brackish waters of the colony, and on all shores of such waters or any part thereof.

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS.

1. The close season for seals prescribed by regulations made by Order in Council dated the 21st day of December, 1894, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 1, of the 4th day of January, 1895, and which was, by Order in Council dated the 27th day of March, 1900, extended up to the 30th day of June, 1901, is hereby further extended up to the 30th day of June, 1902.
2. Every person who, during the close season prescribed as aforesaid, takes any seal is liable to a penalty of not less than £25 nor more than £500, and in addition thereto is liable to a further penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £20 in respect of every seal so taken. The taking of seals means and includes the killing, catching, dredging for, raising, or hunting of any seal, or any attempt so to do.