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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 17

opinion it is unsuitable for human accommodation, or if the
owner or occupier thereof fails after due notice to clean,
renovate, or himself remove or destroy the same. Any costs
incurred by the Council in and about such removal or de-
struction shall be a debt due to the Council, recoverable as
liquidated damages by process in the Magistrate's Court.
7. The Village Committee may in its discretion ease or
modify the application of the foregoing By-laws Nos.
5 and 6, in the case of any old, ill, or feeble person occupy-
ing any such buildings as aforesaid, so that such by-law
may not press heavily on such person. The Chairman of the
Village Committee shall report the case and all the circum-
stances to the Chairman of the Council, whereupon the
Council shall consider such case and decide whether it shall
devote part of its funds towards cleansing and otherwise im-
proving the dwellings of such sick, old, or feeble persons.

(C.) Nuisances.
(Section 16, Subsection 3.)

8. No nightsoil, refuse, or offensive rubbish shall be cast
   or deposited or allowed to flow into any spring, stream,
   or watercourse that flows through or past a Maori kainga,
   and which is used as a water-supply by the inhabitants of
   such kainga, or any other kainga on the banks of such
   stream or near such spring.
9. No person who is the owner or occupier of any premises
   within a Maori kainga shall permit or suffer any nightsoil or
   refuse, or any offensive rubbish or matter of any kind what-
   ever, to accumulate or remain or be in or upon such premises
   so as to be injurious or dangerous to health, or so as to cause
   an offensive smell.
10. No horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, or other animals shall
    be buried within a Maori kainga.
11. No person shall throw or leave any dead animal on
    any property within a Maori kainga whereby any offensive
    smell is or is likely to be created.
12. Every person who commits a breach of any of the
    By-laws Nos. 8, 9, 10, and 11 shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding one pound.

(D.) Drunkenness.
(Section 16, Subsection 4.)

13. No alcoholic liquor shall be supplied, drunk, or brought
    to any Maori hui, gathering, or meeting of any kind, or for
    any purpose whatsoever, whether held in a Maori kainga or
    at any other place within the district, except townships and
    European lots in a Native township.
14. Where a public meeting is held by invitation, the per-
    son or persons issuing such invitation shall be jointly and
    severally liable, if he or they supply or cause to be supplied
    any alcoholic liquor to the visitors, or any of them, or to any
    person whatsoever attending such meeting, to a penalty not
    exceeding ten pounds.
15. Any person found drunk at any Maori meeting shall
    be liable to a fine of not less than ten shillings and not
    exceeding two pounds.
16. Any person found drunk in any Maori kainga shall be
    liable to a fine not exceeding five shillings for the first offence,
    not exceeding ten shillings for the second offence, and not
    exceeding one pound for every subsequent offence.
17. Any person shall be guilty of an offence who—
    (1.) Being drunk, or under the influence of liquor, enters
    a meeting-house, or a church, or some other public
    building within a Maori pa.
    (2.) Takes any alcoholic liquor into such meeting-house,
    church, or public building.
    (3.) Drinks or causes any one else to drink any alcoholic
    liquor in any such meeting-house, church, or pub-
    lic building.
    And such person shall be liable to a penalty of not less
    than five shillings and not exceeding one pound for a first
    offence, and not exceeding two pounds for every subsequent
    offence.

(E.) Tohungas.
(Section 16, Subsection 5.)

18. Wherever, on account of the practices of any person
    alleged to be a tohunga, he gathers a following and esta-
    blishes himself in any kainga, or travels from one kainga to
    another with such following, so as, in the opinion of the
    Council or of any Village Committee, to cause serious incon-
    venience to the inhabitants of any kainga, or to any of them,
    by causing waste of food or substance, or in any other way,
    the Council may, by notice in writing, direct such tohunga to
    desist from such practices, and if he persist the Council may
    impose a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.
19. The Council may grant a license, after full inquiry, to
    persons skilled in the use of Maori herbs or wairakau, for
    such term and subject to such conditions as the Council may
    deem fit. Such license shall have force only within the dis-
    trict, and the fee for the same shall be ten pounds per annum.

(F.) Hawkers.
(Section 16, Subsection 13.)

20. The following by-laws shall apply to Indian, Assyrian,
    and other hawkers selling their wares in the Maori kaingas
    within the district—that is to say:—
    (1.) Such person shall have a license from the Council
    before he may vend his wares within the Maori
    kaingas of the district.
    (2.) The license in the Form B in the Schedule hereto
    shall have force throughout the whole of the
    district, and the fee therefor shall be two pounds.
    (3.) The Chairman or the Clerk of the Council, or a
    member of the Council duly authorised by the
    Council in that behalf, is empowered to issue such
    license.
    (4.) All fees paid for licenses shall be forwarded to the
    office of the Council.
    (5.) Any person hawking goods without license within
    Maori kaingas in the district shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding five pounds.
21. A special license may be issued by the Chairman or
    Clerk or any member of the Council, or by the Chairman of
    the Village Committee of a kainga where any hui or gather-
    ing is held, to any person desirous of hawking and selling
    goods at such hui or gathering, on payment of a fee of ten
    shillings. Such license shall be in force only while such hui
    or gathering lasts, and no longer. Any person hawking and
    selling goods at such hui or gathering without special license,
    or a license as provided in the foregoing by-laws, shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

(G.) Gambling.
(Section 16, Subsection 15.)

22. No billiard-room shall be constructed and no billiard-
    table erected within any Maori kainga, or at any other
    place within the district except townships and European
    settlements: Provided that this by-law shall have force in
    respect of Maori lots within a Native township. Any person
    guilty of a breach of this by-law shall be liable to a fine
    not exceeding twenty-five pounds.

Village Committees.

23. The Council may delegate all or any of its powers
    under the foregoing by-laws to the Village Committee, and
    such Committee shall thereupon have full authority to
    exercise such powers within its kainga.
24. The Village Committee may impose a fine or a
    penalty for the breach of a by-law, but if the same is not
    paid within a specified time the Chairman of the Committee
    shall thereupon report such breach and all the circum-
    stances of the case, and the failure to pay the fine or penalty
    imposed, to the Chairman of the Council.

THE SCHEDULE.
Form A.
(By-law No. 5.)

To [Name],
[Address].
GREETING. You are requested to construct a raised wooden
floor for your house within days after the service of
this notice upon you, to the satisfaction of the Council [or
Village Committee], or its authorised agent. And you are
warned that if, after service of this notice upon you, you
refuse or neglect within the time above specified to comply
with the said notice you will be liable to a fine not exceed-
ing one pound.
Dated the day of , 19 .
[Seal.] , Chairman [or Clerk] of Council
[or Village Committee].

Form B.
(By-law No. 20.)
HAWKER LICENSE.

Know all men that , a hawker, is duly licensed to
vend his goods in the kaingas of the Maori District
for one year from the date hereof.
Given under the seal of the Maori Council of
the Maori District, the day
[Seal.] of , one thousand nine hundred
and .
, Chairman [or Clerk] of the Council.

The above by-laws were passed at a meeting of the Maori
Council for the Matatua Maori District held at Whakatane
on the 14th day of November, 1901; and are given under
the seal of the said Council.
(L.S.)
TE POUWHARE,
Chairman.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this eleventh day of February, one thousand nine
undred and two.
J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.