Oct. 22. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2231

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, being Section No. 36, Tikokino Agricultural Reserve, Block XVI., Wakarara Survey District, containing 53 acres 1 rood 20 perches, more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier.

Also all that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 52 acres 2 roods 8 perches, more or less, being Lot No. 2 of Section No. 37, Tikokino Agricultural Sections, Block XVI., Wakarara Survey District: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 48879a, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating an Irregularity in the Special Order making a Special Rate as the Security for a Proposed Loan of £700 to metal various Roads, applied for by the Mauku Road Board under Section 10 of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1902.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of October, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Mauku Road Board lately proposed to raise a special loan of seven hundred pounds for metalling various roads: And whereas a special order making a special rate was made as the security for the said loan, but the notice of proposal to adopt such special order was not publicly notified in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the meeting at which the resolution was proposed, as required by section seventy-five of “The Road Boards Act, 1882”: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate such irregularity:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the tenth section of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1902,” doth hereby validate the notifications of the said special order, and doth hereby declare that such public notifications and such special order shall be deemed and taken to be as valid to all intents and purposes as though the said special order had been regularly made and notified in accordance with section seventy-five of “The Road Boards Act, 1882”; and, further, that no proceedings taken in relation to the said special order and notifications, or subsequent thereon, shall be deemed to be insufficient or irregular by reason only of the insufficiency or the irregularity of such special order or the public notifications of the said proposed resolution.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations as to Size of Mesh of Trawl-nets.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of October, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations for the purposes therein mentioned, which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein:

And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth, which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations; and with the like advice and consent doth order that the said regulations shall have force and effect throughout the colony on and after the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and four.

REGULATIONS.

1. The mesh of every trawl-net shall measure diagonally, when prepared for use, wetted, and stretched, not less than the following dimensions: viz., in wings and body, 5 in.; in cod end, 4 in.

2. Any person committing a breach of the above regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than £1, and not exceeding £20.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under Explosive Acts revoked, and other Regulations substituted.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of October, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, in exercise of the powers conferred by “The Explosives Act, 1882,” and “The Explosives Act Amendment Act, 1897,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, did, for the purposes of the said Acts, make the regulations referred to in the First Schedule hereto: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the regulations thirdly referred to in the said First Schedule (to wit, those relating to “pitite”), and in lieu thereof to make regulations respecting the explosives known as “bobbinite,” “pitite,” and “taipo,” as the same are respectively defined in the Second Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by the said Acts, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulations thirdly referred to in the First Schedule hereto (to wit, those of the sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two, relating to “pitite”), and for the purposes of the said Acts doth hereby make the regulations following, that is to say,—

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations, as also the regulations firstly and secondly referred to in the First Schedule hereto, shall be read together.

2. The explosive known as “bobbinite,” as defined in the Second Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be an explosive within Class 2; the explosive known as “pitite,” as defined in the said Second Schedule, shall be deemed to be an explosive within Class 3, Division 1; and the explosive known as “taipo,” as defined in the said Second Schedule, shall be deemed to be an explosive within Class 3, Division 2, of the regulations firstly referred to in the First Schedule hereto; and the regulations firstly and secondly referred to in the said First Schedule shall be read and construed accordingly.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS HERETOFORE MADE.

First: Regulations dated 6th June, 1898, and gazetted 16th idem, classifying and defining explosives and providing for their importation.

Second: Regulations dated 8th January, 1900, and gazetted 11th idem, providing for the inspection, manufacture, and storage of explosives.

Third: Regulations dated 6th August, 1902, and gazetted 7th idem, referring to the explosive known as “pitite.”

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF “BOBBINITE,” “PITITE,” AND “TAIPO.”

Class 2.

“Bobbinite”: Consisting of a mechanical mixture of nitrate of potassium, charcoal, sulphur, sulphate of ammonia, and sulphate of copper.

Class 3, Division 1.

“Pitite”: Consisting, in every hundred parts by weight of the finished explosive, of not more than twenty-seven parts and not less than twenty-five parts of thoroughly purified nitro-glycerine, with not more than thirty-three parts and not less than thirty parts of nitrate of potassium and nitrate of barium or either of them, and with not more than thirty-nine parts and not less than thirty-six parts of wood-meal, and with not more than five parts and not less