SEPT. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2167

In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land proposed to be taken for the Construction of Beacons and Leading-lights near Gisborne.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work authorised to be constructed by the Gisborne Harbour Board, to wit, for the purpose of the construction of beacons on which leading-lights are to be erected:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown;

And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said land, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the said beacons and leading-lights, and the said land shall vest in the Gisborne Harbour Board, as from the twentieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Stock Act, 1893,” for the Prevention of Blackleg among Cattle.—Notice No. 899.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of September, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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; and 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: And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations, and doth hereby declare that such regulations shall come into force on the day of the gazetting hereof.

REGULATIONS.

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:
   “Cattle,” “Chief Inspector,” “disease,” “infected area,” “infected place,” “Inspector,” “land,” “Minister,” and “owner” have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 3 of “The Stock Act, 1893” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

Infected Area declared.

2. The land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared an infected area from which no cattle under the age of eighteen months shall be removed.

Provisions as to Infected Areas and Infected Places.

3. Upon receipt of a notification in pursuance of section 24 of the said Act, to the effect that any Inspector is satisfied that affected stock exist or have during the preceding twelve months existed upon any land outside the said infected area, the Chief Inspector shall forthwith report the matter to the Minister; and if the Minister is satisfied that such stock are affected or have during the preceding twelve months been affected, or that blackleg exists or has during the preceding twelve months existed upon such land, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare such land an infected place from which no cattle under the age of eighteen months shall be removed.

4. In every case where any stock has died within the said infected area or within any such infected place as aforesaid the owner shall, unless otherwise directed by an Inspector, at once cause the carcase of such stock to be destroyed by burning; and unless there is good or sufficient reason to the contrary, the proof of which shall be upon the owner, such burning shall be done upon the spot where such stock died.

General Provisions.

5. (1.) In any case where an Inspector is satisfied that blackleg exists on any land, or that any land is likely to become infected with blackleg, the following provisions shall apply:—
   (a.) Upon being notified in writing by the Inspector to do so, the owner shall muster all his cattle, or such portion thereof as is specified in the notice, in order that the same may be inspected.
   (b.) The cattle shall be mustered at such time and place as the Inspector directs.
   (c.) The Inspector may cause the cattle or any of them to be vaccinated in such manner as he thinks fit in order to prevent the spread of blackleg.
   (2.) The provisions of this section shall apply to land wherever situate, and whether the same is or is not within the said infected area or any such infected place as aforesaid.

6. Every person who commits any breach of these regulations or who neglects to faithfully comply with these regulations commits an offence, and shall be liable for each such offence to a penalty of not less than five nor more than two hundred pounds.

SCHEDULE.

INFECTED AREA.

ALL that area of land situated in the Auckland, Taranaki, and Wellington Land Districts, and bounded towards the north by the left bank of the Mokau River from the sea to where the said river is intersected by the western side of the North Island Main Trunk Railway; thence towards the east by the said western side of the said railway to the Wanganui River, and by the right bank of the said Wanganui River to the sea; and thence towards the south-west, west, and north-west by the sea to the Mokau River aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Wellington Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty