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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 35

Lands taken for Roads through Kopu-a-whara Block 5,
Mahanga Survey District.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by
section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter
John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, with the consent of the owners of the
lands hereinafter mentioned and with the consent of the
Wairoa County Council, being the local authority in whose
district the said lands are situated, do by this notice hereby
proclaim as taken for a road the lands in the Mahanga
Survey District hereinafter described, that is to say,—

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same is
more particularly delineated on the plan marked and
coloured as above noted, and deposited in the office of the
Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington
Land District.

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 first day of May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Prison closed.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand intituled “The Prisons Act, 1882,” it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, declare that any prison or police gaol shall
no longer be a prison or police gaol; and upon the gazetting
of such Proclamation, or from and after any later date fixed
in such Proclamation for the purpose, such prison or police
gaol shall cease to be a prison or police gaol :

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare
that from and after the gazetting of this Proclamation the
prison at Mount Cook, in the Provincial District of Wellington, shall cease to be a prison, and that the Terrace
Prison at Wellington will in future be known as the
Wellington Prison.

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 first day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.

JAS. McGOWAN.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Regulations for Post-Office Savings-Banks.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
twenty-eighth day of April, 1903.

Present :

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

WHEREAS by “The Post Office Act, 1900,”
the Governor in Council is empowered to
make regulations for—

(1.) Superintending, inspecting, and regulating
the mode of keeping the accounts of
depositors in the Post-Office Savings.
Bank ;

(2.) Prescribing with respect to depositors’
accounts the mode of making deposits
and withdrawing moneys, and the
notice to be given in the case of withdrawals ;

(3.) Prescribing the time for which deposit
books, deposit slips, withdrawal notices,
warrants, receipts, and all other books,
forms, and documents relating to the
Post-Office Savings-Bank shall be retained in the custody of the Postmaster-General, and the mode in which they
shall thereafter be destroyed or otherwise disposed of,;

(4.) All other matters incidental to the carrying of the aforesaid Act into execution :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority conferred on
him by the said Act, and acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said colony, doth hereby revoke the Orders in
Council making regulations under “The Post-Office Savings-Banks Act, 1867,” and dated respectively the second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and also so much of the Order
in Council making regulations under the said Act
and dated the sixteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and one, as relates to
the Post-Office Savings-Bank, and doth hereby
make the following regulations, and declare that
he same shall come into force on and after the
first day of July next, that is to say :—

PRELIMINARY.

Short Title.

1. These regulations may be cited as “The Post-Office Savings-Bank Regulations, 1903.”

Interpretation.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

The expression “Savings. Bank business”
means the receipt of deposits for remittance
to the principal office of the Post. Office
Savings-Bank within each postal district,
and the repayment of such deposits, and
all business incidental to such receipt and
repayment :

The expression “Savings-Bank office” means
a post-office at which Savings-Bank business
is transacted :

The expression “Savings-Bank year” means
the twelve months ending on the 31st day of
December in any year :