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their Post Office Accounts, and shall treat the money received by them for postal notes as part of the balance due from them on Post Office Account.

Paid postal notes: Period for which to be kept.

15. Paid postal notes shall be kept in the custody of the Postmaster-General for two years, and after the expiration of that period of time shall be burnt in the presence of two officers to be deputed by the Secretary to the General Post Office to supervise their destruction.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900.”—Notice No. 698.

RANFURLY, Governor.

P URSUANT to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by “The Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby make the following additional regulations under and for the purposes of the said Act:—

REGULATIONS.

1. Where two or more local authorities combine to establish an abattoir for the purposes of their respective districts in common, the agreement for such combination shall be by deed, under the seal of each of the corporate bodies, setting out therein the terms and conditions as agreed on, provided such terms and conditions are approved by the Minister for Agriculture in each case.

2. In any case where an abattoir established by one local authority is to be made available for the purposes of the district of another local authority, the agreement shall be by deed under the seal of each of the corporate bodies, setting out therein the terms and conditions as agreed on, provided such terms and conditions are approved by the Minister for Agriculture.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two. C. H. MILLS,
For Minister for Agriculture.

Trustees for the Raglan Public Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

BENJAMIN WILLIAM HAMILTON,
ALBERT RICHARD LANGLEY, and
WILLIAM JAMES SMITH

to be Trustees, in the place of Edward Frissell, James Rendell, and John William Roffey, who have left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Raglan Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Election of Chairman and Members of the Board of Conciliation for the Otago and Southland Industrial District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that

WILLIAM SCOTT, Outfitter, of Dunedin, and
JOHN MACGREGOR, Ironfounder, of Dunedin,

representing employers, and

ROBERT FERGUSON, Bootmaker, of Dunedin, and
PATRICK HALLY, Bootmaker, of Dunedin,

representing employees, have been duly elected as members, and

ALEXANDER BATHGATE, Solicitor, of Dunedin,

has been duly elected as Chairman, of the Board of Conciliation in and for the Otago and Southland Industrial District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Acting Minister of Labour.

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License Fee, &c., Tauranga District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

I N exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock pheasants and Californian quail may be taken or killed within the Tauranga District, consisting of the Counties of Tauranga, Opotiki, and Whakatane, from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that licenses to sell game and native game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Postmasters at Tauranga and Opotiki are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the abovementioned district from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Consul for Austria-Hungary, Auckland, to receive Residue of Intestate Estates in certain Cases.

P URSUANT to the provisions of the forty-ninth section of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that moneys or personal chattels payable or deliverable by the Public Trustee to Austrian or Hungarian subjects resident therein may be paid or delivered to Herr Eugene Langguth, Consul for Austria-Hungary, resident at Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, who has been represented to me as the Chief Consular Officer of Austria-Hungary as regards the Colony of New Zealand for such purpose.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

RANFURLY,
Governor.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1902.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
FRANCES MARY KELLY .. .. Awitu.
(On and from the 5th April, 1902.)
MARCUS JACKMAN .. .. Clutha.
(On and from the 8th April, 1902.)
ROBERT ARCHIBALD BAYLIFFE .. .. Wairoa.
(On and from the 4th April, 1902.)
JOSEPH A. CUTTANCE .. .. Jackson’s Bay.
(On and from the 2nd June, 1902.)

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1902.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
WILLIAM BOWLING .. .. Duntronn.
JOHN PIERCY .. .. Ashhurst.
ALEXANDER MILL .. .. Waipu.
GILBERT GRAHAM HODGKINS .. .. Wellington.

J. G. WARD.