670.                                                                                      THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.                                                                                          No. 23

Revoking Quarantine Regulations.

(l.s.) RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

I N pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by “The Public Health Act, 1900,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant issued under section ninety-two of “The Public Health Act, 1876,” dated the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the same date (No. 64), and also the Proclamation dated the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the same date (No. 69), and the quarantine regulations made therein respectively.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Taking Native Lands for a Site for a Public Abattoir in Turanganui Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourth day of March, 1902.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, a site for a public abattoir:

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said lands by the Gisborne Borough Council, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 declare that the lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said site for a public abattoir, and the said lands shall vest in the Gisborne Borough Council, as from the twenty-first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, and in Block VI., Turanganui Survey District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 2 roods 30 perches, more or less, and being Subdivision No. 1b of Awapuni No. 1 Block, Subdivision No. 1c of same block, and part of Subdivision No. 1k of same block; as the same are delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 47916, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with brown.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Taking Native Lands for a Public Cemetery in Turanganui Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourth day of March, 1902.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a public work, to wit, for the purposes of a public cemetery:

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said lands by the Gisborne Borough Council, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 declare that the lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the said public cemetery, and the said lands shall vest in the Gisborne Borough Council, as from the twenty-first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, and in Blocks VI. and VII., Turanganui Survey District, containing by admeasurement 45 acres 3 roods 33 perches, more or less, being part of Subdivision No. 1a of Awapuni No. 1 Block, Subdivision No. 1e of the said block, part of Subdivision No. 1f of the same block, Awapuni No. 2 Block, and Waiohiharore No. 3 Block; as the same are delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 47916, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with purple.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending the Close Season for Seals.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1902.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (herein-after 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 nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one, the said close season for seals was extended up to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two:

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 19th day of April, 1901, extended up to the 30th day of June, 1902, is hereby further extended up to the 30th day of June, 1903.

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.

3. No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, consign for sale, buy for sale, or have in possession any seal, or any skins, oil, or blubber from any seal, in any manner in contravention of the said Act or of these regulations; and every person so doing is liable for every such offence to a penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £20.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.