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3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAS. McGOWAN.
Minister of Mines.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations. Wellington, for the month of September, 1902. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c. † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—A very changeable month; very wintry towards the end. The rainfall was below the average. Rain fell on twenty-one days, the maximum being recorded on the 13th, 0·62 in. The wind was equally divided between north-west and south-west. Maximum temperature in shade, 60°; minimum, 34°; mean temperature of dew-point, 39·6°; mean humidity, 73.

A. H. GORE (pro R. B. GORE),
Observer.

Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 31.

Registrar-General’s Office.
Wellington, 29th September, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

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

The Reverend Alfred Robertson Fitchett, M.A.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General,

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

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has this day been pleased to approve of the following by-laws made by the Maori Council of the Mahunui Maori District, under the provisions of section sixteen of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” as set out in the Schedule hereto.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Approved.

RANFURLY, Governor.

SCHEDULE.

THE MAORI COUNCIL OF THE MAHUNUI MAORI DISTRICT.

BY-LAWS.

THE Maori Council of the Mahunui 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 Mahunui 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 Mahunui Maori District, proclaimed by the Governor under the said Act by Proclamation dated the 30th day of July, 1902.

“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. 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.

5. 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.

6. The Council may, in lieu of notice referred to in By-law No. 4, by notice in writing in Form B in the Schedule hereto, require the owner or occupier of any such building as is referred in By-law No. 4 to construct or provide a couch or raised bedstead in such house at least 1 ft. above the ground; and any person who, after service of such notice, shall refuse or neglect within the time specified in such notice to comply with the same shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound.