Mar. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 797

REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to shoot and kill deer (bucks or stags only) in the Otago Acclimatisation District, except within the area described in Regulation No. 6 of these regulations, will be issued under the hand of the Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society, in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Acts and these regulations. For every such license to kill red deer a fee of £3 sterling will be charged; and no holder of any such license as aforesaid shall kill more than four stags under or by virtue of such license, and no stag with less than eight points shall be killed. And for every such license to kill fallow deer a fee of £2 sterling will be charged; and no holder of any such license as aforesaid shall kill more than four bucks under or by virtue of such license.

An additional license to kill red deer may be issued to any person at a fee of £5, and no holder of such additional license shall kill more than four stags under or by virtue of such license, and no stag with less than eight points shall be killed.

The said Chief Postmaster is hereby appointed and authorised to issue and sign the said licenses.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to kill fallow deer (bucks only), as provided in Regulation No. 1 of these regulations, from the 15th March, 1904, to the 30th April, 1904, and red deer (stags only), as provided in Regulation No. 1 of these regulations, from the 1st April, 1904, to the 31st May, 1904. Ball cartridge only to be used.

3. No doe, hind, or fawn will be allowed to be killed on any pretext whatever; and no dogs will be allowed to accompany either the licensee or any attendant he may have with him.

4. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear days before such date.

5. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorising any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

6. No deer shall be shot within an area containing about 24,800 acres in one block, being parts of Mid-Hawea, Longslip, Lower Hawea, and Lindis Districts, plans of which area will be issued by the secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society to persons to whom licenses to shoot deer are granted.

SCHEDULE.

No. . License to take or kill Game (Deer).
, of , having this day paid the sum of £ , is hereby authorised to take or kill deer (bucks or stags only) of not less than points within the District of , from the day of 1904, to the day of , 1904 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions of “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the amendments thereof.

Dated at , this day of , 190 .

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Order in Council fixing Dues for Wharves, Waipu River, and fixing other Dues in lieu thereof.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is provided by the fourth section of “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1879,” that the power granted to the Governor in Council by the seventeenth section of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” in respect of prescribing what dues and rates may be charged on wharves vested in local bodies may be exercised from time to time as occasion may require, and shall not be limited as in the said section is provided:

And whereas the management of two wharves on the Waipu River, Whangarei District, was, by Order in Council dated the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three, vested in the Waipu River Board:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four, the dues and rates specified in the Schedule thereto were prescribed for the use of the said wharves:

And whereas it is desirable that the said Order in Council of the eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four, should be revoked, and that other dues and rates should be prescribed for the use of the said wharves:

Now, therefore, 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by “The Harbours Act, 1878,” “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1879,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby revoke the said Order in Council of the eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four, and doth hereby prescribe that the dues and rates set forth in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be charged and taken by the Waipu River Board for the use of the said wharves.

SCHEDULE.

s. d.
Grain or flour, per ton .. .. .. .. 1 0
Posts and rails, per 100 .. .. .. .. 0 6
Firewood, per cord .. .. .. .. 0 6
Kauri gum, per ton .. .. .. .. 2 0
Sawn timber, inwards or outwards, per 100 ft. superficial .. .. .. .. 0 1
Single bag or parcel .. .. .. .. 0 1
Horses or great cattle, each .. .. .. .. 0 6
Calves under one year, sheep, or pigs, each .. .. 0 0½
Bricks, per 1,000 .. .. .. .. 1 6
Coal, per ton .. .. .. .. 0 6
Wool, per bale .. .. .. .. 0 6
Flax and tow, per bale .. .. .. .. 0 3
Hides, each .. .. .. .. 0 1
Hides, per ton of 40 to the ton .. .. .. .. 2 0
Sheepskins, per bale or parcel .. .. .. .. 0 3
All other goods, either weight or measurement, at the option of the wharfinger, per ton .. .. 1 0

Agricultural machinery shall be exempt from wharfage charges, and also such passengers’ luggage or ships’ stores as are carried in hand, not exceeding a quarter of a ton.

All goods on either of the wharves for seven days will be charged double wharfage dues, except outward cargo taken away by the first vessel by which it could be sent.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Renewing Regulations under “The Electric Lines Act, 1884.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section fifteen in Part I. of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, amend, and revoke regulations for the transmission of telegrams by means of any electric line, and for the other purposes in such section mentioned; and by section forty-four in Part III. of the said Act it is provided that all powers, duties, and authorities contained in or exercisable under Part I. of the said Act in relation to the construction and maintenance of electric lines of communication by telegraph, and the regulation thereof, and all other powers and authorities therein contained, may, mutatis mutandis, be applied and exercised in relation to electric lines of communication by telephone: And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two, regulations were made for the aforesaid purposes, and also for the purpose of transmission of messages by telephone, and for the payments to be made therefor; and it is desirable to revoke such regulations and to make others in lieu thereof in the manner hereinafter set forth:

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 said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulations and the fees and rates specified in the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations and fix the fees and rates set forth in the Schedule hereto, for the purposes of the transmission of telegrams by means of electric lines, and for their delivery, and for the disposal of all unclaimed or undelivered telegrams, for fixing and determining the fees and rates to be demanded and received for the transmission of any telegram, and otherwise; and doth hereby order and declare that such regulations, fees, and rates shall be in force and take effect on and from the first publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.