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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 11.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1902.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend George Wilks.

Baptists.

The Reverend John Muirhead.
The Reverend J. C. Martin.

Scots Church.

The Reverend William Thomson.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1902.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Alexander Carrick Wedderspoon.
The Reverend Samuel Watler Entrican, M.A.

Primitive Methodist Connexion.

The Reverend Harry Ramsbottom.
The Reverend Ralph James Liddell.
The Reverend Robert Archer Robinson.
The Reverend Joseph Carlisle.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1902.

IN accordance with request from the ecclesiastical head of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, the undermentioned name has been withdrawn from the List of Officiating Ministers in connection with that religious body, under “The Marriage Act, 1880,” for the year 1902:—

The Reverend WILLIAM WOOLLAS.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice of Cancellation of Registry under “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Boilermakers and Iron-ship Builders’ Society of Christchurch Industrial Union of Workmen, registered No. 12, situated at Christchurch, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 27th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Lyttelton Maritime and Wharf Labourers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 273, situated at Lyttelton, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

By-laws of the Wairoa District Maori Council, under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” approved.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following by-laws made by the Maori Council of the Wairoa Maori District, under the provisions of section sixteen of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

RANFURLY, Governor.

Approved.

SCHEDULE.

THE MAORI COUNCIL OF THE WAIROA MAORI DISTRICT.

BY-LAWS.

THE Maori Council of the Wairoa Maori District, constituted under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” hereby makes the following by-laws under and by virtue of the said Act, such by-laws to come into operation upon approval thereof by the Governor, and the publication of the same in the Gazette and Kahiti:—

Interpretation.

In these by-laws, except when inconsistent with the context, or when otherwise expressly provided, the following expressions shall have the meanings attached thereto:—

“The said Act” means “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

“The Council” means the Maori Council of the Wairoa Maori District, constituted under the said Act.

“Committee” or “Village Committee” means the Village Committee or Komiti Marae of a Maori kainga, village, or pa, appointed by the Maori Council under the provisions of the said Act.

“District” means the Wairoa Maori District, proclaimed by the Governor under the said Act by Proclamation dated the 26th day of December, 1900.

“Native township” means a township constituted under “The Native Townships Act, 1895.”

“Prescribed” means prescribed by rules or regulations made under the said Act or by these by-laws.

(A.) Health and Personal Convenience.

(Section 16, Subsection 1.)

1. Human corpses shall be buried, if the death occurs between the 15th day of March and the 15th day of September (both days inclusive) in any year, within four days after death; and, if the death occurs between the 16th day of September and the 14th day of March of the following year (both days inclusive), within three days after death, unless the Council shall otherwise direct, or unless it is otherwise provided for by any Act of the General Assembly.

2. It shall be the duty of the nearest relatives of the deceased, or, in their absence, of the owner or occupier of the house or premises wherein deceased died, to comply with the provisions of the last preceding by-law; and all or any of them shall be deemed to be guilty of a breach thereof as the Council may deem fit, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound.

3. No human corpse shall be buried, except with the permission of the Council, in any place other than a burial-ground recognised by the inhabitants of a Maori kainga, or reserved or set apart by them or some duly constituted authority as a burial-ground.

4. No human corpse shall be permitted to lie in state in front of any meeting-house or in the courtyard (marae) thereof, but may lie in state at some other spot in the vicinity that may be indicated by the Chairman of the Village Committee or the member of Council for the riding.

5. The Council may, by notice in writing in Form A in the Schedule hereto, require the owner or occupier of any house within a kainga (other than cooking-houses, kautas, and outbuildings), which shall be erected after the coming into operation of these by-laws, to construct a floor for the same (within a time to be specified in such notice) to be approved by the Council or any person or body it may authorise in that behalf.

6. Any person who, after service upon him of such notice as aforesaid, refuses or neglects, within the time specified in such notice, or such further time as the Council may allow, to comply with the same, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound.

7. The Council may, in lieu of the notice referred to in By-law No. 5, by notice in writing in Form B in the Schedule hereto, require the owner or occupier of any such building as is referred to in By-law No. 5 to construct or provide a couch or raised bedstead in such house at least