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lication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the licensee, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

14. The construction of the wharf and fish-canning factory shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the licensee of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Varying Rules as to Life-saving Appliances for Ships.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of November, 1903.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 56, of the ninth day of the same month, rules were made for the classification of ships and as to life-saving appliances for ships:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 77, of the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and three, it was ordered that such rules shall come and be in force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and four:

And whereas it is desirable to rescind certain of the said rules and to make other in lieu thereof, to vary others of the said rules, and to alter the time at which such rules shall come into force:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act Amendment Act, 1894,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby rescind clause five of the general rules made by the said Order in Council of the sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three, doth hereby make the rule numbered five set forth in the First Schedule hereto in lieu thereof, doth vary the instructions as to the interpretation of the rules by adding to the first paragraph of clause two and to clause seven thereof the paragraphs numbered one and two respectively set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, and doth order that the said rules of the sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three, as amended hereby, shall come into force on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

(5.) EQUIPMENTS FOR COLLAPSIBLE OR OTHER BOATS AND FOR LIFE-RAFTS.

In order to be properly equipped each boat shall be provided as follows:—

(a.) With the full single-bank complement of oars and two spare oars.

(b.) With two plugs for each plug-hole, attached with lanyards or chains, and one set and a half of thole-pins or crutches attached to the boat by sound lanyards.

(c.) With a sea-anchor or baler, a rudder and a tiller or yoke and yoke-lines, a painter of sufficient length, and a boat-hook. The rudder and baler to be attached to the boat by sufficiently long lanyards, and kept ready for use. In boats where there may be a difficulty in fitting a rudder, a steering-oar may be provided instead.

(d.) With the following water and provisions—viz.: sufficient water for three days’ supply at one pint per day for each person the boat is certified to carry; lime-juice tabloids, 4 oz. for each person; chocolate, five days’ supply, allowing 1 oz. per day for each person; plasmon jelly made with 75 per cent. of plasmon powder added to 25 per cent. of gelatine, and kept in air-tight tins containing 1 lb. each, five days’ supply, allowing ¼ oz. per day for each person; plasmon biscuit made with 27 per cent. of plasmon powder and 73 per cent. of wheat flour, five days’ supply, allowing 4 oz. per day for each person, or ordinary biscuit for a similar period, allowing 1½ lb. per day for each person; matches, six blue lights, twelve fish-hooks and three fishing-lines. The water shall be kept in air-tight metal tanks or in proper kegs, and shall be kept in such part of the boat as may be approved by the surveyor. Each water-vessel shall have attached to it a dipper or other approved means of getting the water out without waste, and when tanks are used they shall have screw tops 3½ in. inside measurement, each top to have two snugs ¾ in. deep and ¾ in. diameter.

The other articles enumerated in this subsection shall be kept in air-tight and water-tight receptacles, with screw tops 5 in. inside measurement, each top to have two snugs each ¾ in. deep and ¾ in. diameter, and such receptacles shall be securely fastened in the boats and life-rafts:

Provided that screw tops which have been procured without the prescribed snugs by shipowners prior to the date hereof may be used if they are made so that they can be screwed up and unscrewed without difficulty, and the surveyor considers they are suitable:

Provided further that the boats of vessels employed solely in the home trade need not be provided with lime-juice tabloids, chocolate, and plasmon jelly, and need only be provided with water and biscuit for two and a half days; but if not provided with lime-juice tabloids, chocolate, and plasmon jelly, then they shall carry three and a half days’ supply of biscuit.

In the case of collapsible boats, the water and provisions, &c., may be stored in a proper receptacle on the ship placed close to the boats, in which case they shall be placed and secured in the boats as soon as the boats are opened and spread out ready for lowering. In the case of vessels not certified to carry passengers which carry more boats than are required to carry all persons on board, it shall be sufficient if enough boats to carry all persons on board are provided with water, provisions, &c.; but the word “provisions” shall be clearly marked on those so provided.

(e.) Life-rafts shall be provided with water and with provisions of the same kinds and on the same scale as boats, as set forth in subsection (d) of this clause, to be kept in similar receptacles, each of which shall have a screw top at each end, so that it may be unscrewed whichever side of the raft may be uppermost, and with suitable equipment, including a mast and sail and four oars, securely attached to the raft, a painter of sufficient length, sea-anchor, twenty fathoms of hawser. A sheath-knife shall be provided for each raft, and shall be kept in a suitable place in the chart-house or chief officer’s room, as approved by the Surveyor.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. If, however, the outer wooden chock is removed altogether where the ordinary double wooden chocks are at present used, the chocks will be passed.

2. Detaching-gear proved and found efficient, and passed before the coming into operation of these rules, may still be used.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the Native owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the Land Transfer certificate of title bearing date the third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, Volume xviii., folio 154, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said Land Transfer certificate of title on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 5 acres and 10 perches, more or less, situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, being Allotment No. 284, Parish of Waiotahi, held under Land Transfer certificate of title dated the 3rd December, 1879, Vol. xviii., folio 154, in favour of Hoani Ngamu, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by gift, sale, lease, or mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to any such gift, sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and three.

J. CARROLL.