JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1697

hereby makes the following additional by-laws under and by virtue of the said Act, such additional by-laws to come into operation upon approval thereof by the Governor, and the publication of the same in the Gazette and Kahiti :—

(G.) Tohungas.

(Section 16, Subsection 5.)

28. 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 a license from the Council.

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

30. Any person (whether European or Maori) who practises 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.

31. 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.

32. 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 meetings by any such tohunga or tukunga.

33. Any person commits an offence against the last preceding 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 exceeding 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.

34. 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 such 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 necessary under the circumstances.

(d.) The license may be granted for any term not exceeding 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 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.

35. 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.

C

Passed at a meeting of the Council held at Ra‘a on the 19th day of May, 1904.

TE RAIKA KERRAMA,
Chairman, Kurahaupo Maori Council.

Form E.

LICENSE FOR TOHUNGA, KURAHAUPO MAORI DISTRICT.

Know all men by these presents that the Maori Council of the Kurahaupo Maori District has permitted , of , tohunga [ or a tukunga of , a tohunga] to practice 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. 34 of the by-laws of this Council, subject to the provisions of the by-laws of the Council, and to the following terms and conditions :—

(Here state conditions.)

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

, Chairman of the Kurahaupo Maori Council.

Notice of Sitting of the Tokerau District Maori Land Council at Russell, Bay of Islands.

Tokerau District Maori Lands Administration Office,
Auckland, 28th June, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Tokerau District Maori Lands Council will be held at Russell, Bay of Islands, on the 18th August, 1904, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to hear and determine the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written, in respect of which applications have been received by me, and all such other matters as may be lawfully brought before it.

H. F. EDGER, President.

SCHEDULE.

CONSIDERATION OF BLOCK COMMITTEE’S REPORTS.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act; the value of the land for the purposes of section 5 of the said Act being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of June, 1904.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 5, Block 81, in the Town of Waitara West and Provincial District of Taranaki.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 6th July, 1904.

THE Tengawai Lodge, No. 62, situated at Albury, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 6th day of July, 1904.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.