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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

RAMEKA WAIKEREPU RU, of Ngawha, Ohaeawai,
to be a Health Inspector for the Maori Council Districts of
Whangarei and Tokerau ;

TIMOTI RIAPO PUHIPI, of Mangonui,
to be a Health Inspector for the Maori Council Districts of
Hokianga and Mangonui ;

IHAIA HUTANA, of Waipaoa, Hawke’s Bay,
to be a Health Inspector for the Maori Council District of
Tamatea ;

KIPA ANARU, of Hawke’s Bay,
to be a member of the Tamatea Maori Council, vice Wetini
Anaru, whose seat has become vacant through absence from
three consecutive meetings of the Council without leave ;

TE REHUNGA TOMOANA, of Hastings,
to be a member of the Tamatea Maori Council, vice Paraire
Tomoana, resigned ;

HENARE TE ATUA, of Hawke’s Bay,
to be a member of the Tamatea Maori Council, vice Kireka
Rapaera, whose seat has become vacant through absence
from three consecutive meetings of the Council without
leave ; and

TEONE PAKA KORUARUA, of Kaiapoi,
to be a member of the Mahunui Maori Council, vice Weepu
Hopa, deceased.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Appointed.
PLUNKET, Governor.

Additional By-laws made by the Horouta Maori Council.

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 14th June, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the following additional by-laws, made by the
Horouta Maori Council, under the provisions of section 16 of
“ The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

HOROUTA MAORI COUNCIL.

THE Maori Council of the Horouta Maori Council District,
constituted under “ The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” hereby
makes the following additional by-laws under and by virtue
of the said Act, such additional by-laws to come into opera-
tion upon approval thereof by the Governor, and the publi-
cation of the same in the Gazette and Kahiti :—

(G.) Tohungas.

(Section 16, Subsection 5.)

21. It shall not be lawful for any person who is or is
    alleged to be a tohunga to practise as such in any part of
    the district without license from the Council.

22. Any person so practising without license shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for every occasion on
    which he so practises.

23. Any person (whether European or Maori) who prac-
    tises upon the superstition or credulity of any Maori in
    connection with the treatment of any disease shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for each offence.

24. Any person who is or is alleged to be a tukunga, or
    to whom alleged powers of healing are or are claimed to
    have been delegated by a tohunga, shall for all the purposes
    of these by-laws be regarded as a tohunga.

25. No meeting or hui shall be called together or held in
    any part of the district, directly or indirectly, in connection
    with the practices of any tohunga or tukunga, or so as to
    allow of the treatment of any sickness at such meeting by
    any tohunga or tukunga.

26. Any person commits an offence against the last pre-
    ceeding by-law who—

(a.) Either by himself, or jointly with any other person
or persons, calls together any such meeting ; and
such person shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
ceeding twenty-five pounds.

(b.) Attends any such meeting ; and such person shall
be liable to a penalty of five shillings for each day
or part of a day he attends any such meeting.

27. The Council may grant a license, after full inquiry, to
    any tohunga or tukunga, subject to the following terms and
    conditions :—

(a.) Application for such license shall be made in writing
by the tohunga or tukunga to the Chairman of the
Council, and shall set out in detail his own name
and address, and the nature of the treatment
proposed.

(b.) Such license may be in the Form U in the Schedule
hereto, and the fee therefor shall be at the rate of
one pound per annum.

(c.) Such license shall contain the following provisions
and conditions :—

(i.) It shall not be lawful for the licensee to
hinder or prevent the attendance of a duly
qualified medical practitioner on any patient, or
the treatment of such patient with European
medicines suitable to the complaint, or prescribed
by a duly qualified medical practitioner, or by a
person skilled in the use and application of
European medicines.

(ii.) It shall not be lawful for the licensee to
cause or allow any patient under his treatment
to bathe in cold water.

(iii.) The licensee shall keep and render monthly
to the Chairman of the Council a statement of
the names and residences of the patients treated
by him, the nature of their complaints, and the
progress of such patients :

Provided that the Council may impose any
other special conditions which it may deem neces-
sary under the circumstances.

(d.) The license may be granted for any term not exceed-
ing twelve months, but may at any time during
the currency thereof be revoked by the Council for
breach of any of the conditions contained in such
license or in these by-laws or if in its opinion the
practices of any licensee are injurious : Provided
that the Chairman may for like reasons suspend
such license pending a meeting of the Council,
and such suspension shall for all purposes have
the effect of a revocation, except that if the
Council at such meeting continues the license
the proportion of the license fee for the period of
suspension shall be refunded to the licensee, but
no action or claim shall lie against the Chairman
for such suspension.

(e.) Such license shall have force only within the district,
or within such part thereof as may be specified,
and no license granted by the Council of any other
district shall have any force or effect within the
district.

(f.) A license may be renewed at the discretion of the
Council, upon application made before the expiry
of the term of an existing license.

28. No license shall be granted to any tukunga unless
    a license has been issued by the Council to the tohunga of
    whom he is a tukunga.

Passed at the meeting of the Council held at Kawakawa
on the 6th day of October, 1903.

A. T. NGATA,
Chairman of the Horouta Maori Council.

Form U.

LICENSE FOR TOHUNGA, HOROUTA MAORI DISTRICT.

Know all men by these presents that the Maori Council of
the Horouta Maori District has permitted , of
, a tohunga [or a tukunga of , a tohunga] to practise as
a tohunga within such district for a period of months
from the date hereof, unless this license is sooner revoked in
accordance with the provisions of By-law No. 27 of the by-
laws of the Council, subject to the provisions of the by-laws
of the Council, and to the following terms and conditions :—

(Here state conditions.)

Given under the seal of the Council, the
[Seal.] day of , 190 .
, Chairman of the Horouta Maori Council.

Additional By-laws made by the Kurahaupo Maori Council.

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 14th June, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the following additional by laws, made by the
Kurahaupo Maori Council, under the provisions of section 16
of “ The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

KURAHAUPO MAORI COUNCIL.

THE Maori Council of the Kurahaupo Maori Council Dis-
trict, constituted under “ The Maori Councils Act, 1900,”