Numb. 100.

2983

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904.

Declaring Additional Diseases under, and extending the First Schedule of, “The Orchard and Garden Pests Act, 1903.”
—Notice No. 923.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1904.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. McGOWAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by “The Orchard and Garden Pests Act, 1903,” 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 declare that on and after the date of the gazetting hereof,

Early blight (Alternaria solani) and
Potato-rot, or Irish potato-blight (Phytophthora infestans),

shall be diseases within the meaning of the said Act; and with the like advice and consent doth hereby extend the First Schedule to the said Act by including the aforesaid diseases therein.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Stock Act, 1893,” for the Prevention of Blackleg among Cattle.—Notice No. 924.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1904.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. McGOWAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-three of “The Stock Act, 1893” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for, inter alia, eradicating and preventing the spread of any disease; for declaring land or premises an infected place, and for prohibiting or regulating the movements of stock out of such infected place; for declaring infected areas from which no stock, or no one or more kinds of stock, shall be removed except in accordance with the regulations; for prohibiting or regulating the manner in which stock shall be driven or allowed to pass from one district to another within the colony; for prescribing certain brands or marks to be used on diseased, infected, or inoculated stock; and generally for all or any such purpose as he may deem necessary for preventing the spread of disease: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the regulations made on the seventh day of September last for the prevention of blackleg among cattle, and to make others in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred 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 said regulations made on the seventh day of September last, and make the following amended regulations in lieu thereof, and doth hereby declare that such amended regulations shall come into force on the day of the gazetting hereof.

REGULATIONS.
Interpretation.

1. For the purposes of these regulations,—
   “Affected” means actually suffering from or affected with blackleg:
   “Blackleg” means the disease known as blackleg, black-quarter, quarter-evil, or symptomatic anthrax:
   “Young cattle” means cattle under eighteen months old:
   “Cattle,” “Chief Inspector,” “disease,” “infected area,” “infected place,” “Inspector,” “land,” “Minister,” and “owner” have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section three of “The Stock Act, 1893” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

Infected Area declared.

2. The land described in the First Schedule hereto is hereby declared an infected area from which no young cattle shall be removed unless they have within the preceding twenty-one days been vaccinated and branded as provided in clause four hereof, and unless their removal has been authorised as provided in clause five hereof.

Removal of Cattle from the Infected Area.

3. At least fourteen clear days before removing any young cattle from the infected area as aforesaid, the owner of such cattle shall deliver or post to the Inspector of Stock for the district a written application in the form in the Second