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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 88

Every revocation of an adoption registered as aforesaid shall be registered in a like manner, and proof of such registration shall be sufficient evidence of the fact of such adoption or revocation, as the case may be.

The Governor in Council is hereby empowered to make such regulations as to the form and manner of such registration, and the fees to be payable in respect thereof, as he may deem necessary or expedient.

REGULATIONS AS MODIFIED.

1. Any person desiring to register an adoption under the provisions of the said section shall lodge with the Registrar of the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court, or with the Resident European Magistrate or Agent at any island, on behalf of of and for transmission to the Registrar, a notice in the Form A in the Schedule hereto. Such notice shall be signed by the adopting party in the presence of, and be attested by, two witnesses, one of whom shall be a European Judge of the High Court of the Cook Islands, or of the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court, Registrar of either of the said Courts, Resident Magistrate, authorised interpreter, or European Postmaster.

2. Any person desiring to register the revocation of an adoption shall lodge with the said Registrar of the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court, or with the Resident European Magistrate or Agent at any island, on behalf of of, and for transmission to, the Registrar, a notice in the Form B in the Schedule hereto. Such notice shall be signed and attested in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided with regard to a notice in Form A.

3. On the receipt of any notice as aforesaid, and on payment of the fee hereinafter prescribed, the Registrar or the Resident European Magistrate or Agent shall indorse thereon the date of reception thereof, and such notice when so indorsed and verified by the signature of the Registrar and the seal of the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court shall be deemed to be duly filed and registered: Provided that, except by leave of the Chief Judge of the aforesaid High Court, or, in the case of Niue, the Niue Island Judge of the Land Titles Court, no notice of adoption or revocation of adoption shall be registered unless lodged within two months from the date thereof.

4. Every such notice, unless in the Native language, shall have indorsed thereon a certificate by an authorised interpreter that the contents thereof have been explained by him to the party signing the same, and that he appeared to fully understand the meaning thereof.

5. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to notify in the Cook Islands Gazette, as soon as may be after the registration thereof, particulars of every adoption or revocation registered under the said section, and to post notice thereof by letter to the person by whom the notice of adoption or revocation purports to have been given.

6. The fee payable for registering any adoption or revocation of any adoption shall be five shillings, and shall be paid before registration is effected. All fees shall be paid by the Registrar into the Cook Islands Treasury, except in Niue Island, in which island the fees shall be paid into the Niue Island Revenue Account.

SCHEDULE TO REGULATIONS.

Form A.—Form of Notice of Adoption.

To the Registrar of the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court.

I, __, of __, hereby give notice that I have taken __, a child of __, to be my adopted child according to Native custom, and I request that such adoption be registered under the provisions of section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” of New Zealand, as modified.

As witness my hand, this __ day of __, 190__.

Signed by the said __, in the presence of—

Form B.—Form of Notice of Revocation of Adoption.

To the Registrar of the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court.

WHEREAS __ is registered as my adopted child under the provisions of section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” of New Zealand, as modified; and whereas I am desirous of putting an end to the said adoption: Now, therefore, I hereby revoke the authority heretofore given for registration thereof, and request that this notice may be registered under the provisions of the said section.

As witness my hand, this __ day of __, 190__.

Signed by the said __, in the presence of—

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

Amending and confirming Order in Council establishing Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of October, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two, under the powers in that behalf conferred upon the Governor in Council by “The Cook and other Islands Government Act, 1901,” and its amendments (hereinafter called “the said Acts”), the Cook and other Islands Land Titles Court (hereinafter called “the said Court”) was established, with the power and functions in the said Order in Council mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to amend and confirm the said Order in Council in manner hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by the said Acts, and of all other powers and authorities 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 order and declare as follows:—

1. The powers and functions which are conferred upon the Chief Judge by clauses 5, 6, 11, 13, 26, and 30 of the said Order in Council shall hereafter be exercised in Niue Island by the Judge having jurisdiction in that island (hereinafter called “the Niue Island Judge”), and not by the Chief Judge.

2. For Niue Island there shall be a separate seal of the Court. Such seal shall be of the same form as the seal referred to in clause 9 of the said Order in Council, with the addition of the words “Niue Island.” It shall be in the custody of the Niue Island Judge, and shall be used for sealing documents which in that island require to be sealed: Provided that the validity or regularity of any document shall not be questioned or affected by reason merely that it is sealed with the one seal instead of the other.

3. So long as there is in Niue Island a Registrar of the said Court or a Resident Commissioner, all references to the Registrar or the Resident Commissioner in the said Order in Council shall in Niue Island be construed as references to the Registrar or Resident Commissioner in that island.

4. The fees payable in Niue Island under the said Order in Council shall be paid into the Niue Island Revenue Account.

5. Subclause (10A) of clause 10 of the said Order in Council is hereby revoked.

6. Subject to the foregoing amendments, the said Order in Council is hereby confirmed, and shall be deemed to be the application to the said islands of the corresponding provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and the regulations thereunder, with such modifications as are necessary to adapt them to the conditions and circumstances of the said islands and the inhabitants thereof.

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

Appointing the Port of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, to be a Port for the Importation of Tobacco.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, do approve of the Port of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, as a port for the importation of tobacco.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

C. H. MILLS.

Governor's Order No. 167.]

Appointing Legal Landing-places at Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, do hereby appoint that on and after the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four, the wharf known as the Union Steamship Company's Wharf at Avarua Harbour, together with