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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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sary lights for the guidance of vessels: Provided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved of by the Minister.

7. Any person authorised by the Minister may at all reasonable times enter upon the said shed and view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known address of the licensee in New Zealand a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such shed, requiring him within a reasonable time to be therein prescribed to repair the same, he shall with all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

8. Nothing herein contained shall authorise the licensee to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, or with any provisions of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” or its amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in force.

9. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under this Order in Council shall continue to be in force for fourteen years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the licensee shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the written consent of the Minister first obtained.

10. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the licensee three calendar months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the licensee in New Zealand.

11. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which the said shed may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on his part.

12. In case the licensee shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them; or
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said shed for a period of thirty days; or
    (3.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought under the operation of any Act for the time being in force relating to bankruptcy; or
    (4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause three of these conditions—
    then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the licensee or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication 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.

13. The construction of the shed 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.

Prescribing Size of Mesh of Fishing-nets.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1904.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the fifth section of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations, which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein, for, amongst other things, limiting the size when wet of the mesh in the square, or in extension from knot to knot, of nets and seines to be used in fishing, and may impose a penalty for breach of any regulation:
And whereas it is desirable to make regulations for the purposes above referred to:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in 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 they shall have force and effect throughout the colony on and after the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four; and doth further order that regulation number one shall supersede clause eleven of the regulations which were made under the said Act on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

REGULATIONS.

1. The mesh of every net or seine used for the purpose of taking fish in tidal waters shall measure diagonally, when prepared for use, wetted, and stretched, not less than 4 in., unless such net is a bond fide garfish-net or herring-net, and used for taking garfish or herrings only.

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.

Excepting Land from the Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1904.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bond fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

And whereas the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council has recommended that all that part of the block or parcel of land known as Kinohaku West G Section 1A No. 2, containing one thousand four hundred and thirteen acres, more or less, situate in the Auckland Provincial District, be excepted from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing one thousand four hundred and thirteen acres, more or less, being part of the land known as Kinohaku West G Section 1A No. 2, and being part of the land comprised in order of the Native Land Court dated the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, in favour of Poutu Rangiatepure and others.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warrant authorising the Construction of a Bridge over the Matau River, at Kaitangata, and apportioning the Cost of the Bridge.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that in any case where the local authority of any district desires to construct a bridge in any position that will, in its opinion, be of advantage and benefit to the whole or any considerable portion of the inhabitants of any adjacent district, as well as to the inhabitants of its own district, and where it is, in the opinion of such local authority, reasonable that the local