2936
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 99

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Road through Rangiuru 2d Block, Maketu Survey District, Tauranga County.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of November, 1904.

Present:
The Honourable W. Hall-Jones presiding in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, for the purpose of a road in Rangiuru 2d Block No. 872d, Block X., Maketu Survey District:

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 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 road, and the said land vest in His Majesty the King, as from the twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is 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 State Fire Insurance Act, 1903.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of December, 1904.

Present:
The Right Honourable R. J. Seddon presiding in Council.

WHEREAS by section forty-eight of “The State Fire Insurance Act, 1903” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations for all or any of the purposes therein mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby for the purposes of the said Act make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and also doth hereby declare that this present Order in Council shall take effect on and after the fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

SCHEDULE.
INTERPRETATION.

1. IN these regulations, and in all policies and instruments purporting to be made or executed thereunder, if not inconsistent with the context,---

“Agent” means a person duly appointed by the Colonial Treasurer or the General Manager to receive proposals for the purposes of the said Act.

“Board” means the State Fire Insurance Board constituted under the said Act.

“Colonial Treasurer” means the person for the time being holding that office, and includes any member of the Executive Council from time to time acting on behalf of the Colonial Treasurer.

“General Manager” means “The State Fire Insurance General Manager” appointed under the said Act.

“Policy” means an instrument containing any contract whatever dependent upon the contingencies of fire insurance.

“Premium” means the periodical or other payments for any policy.

“Proposer” means any person who makes a proposal for insurance against loss or damage by fire.

“The said Act” means “The State Fire Insurance Act, 1903.”

PLACE OF BUSINESS.

2. The office of the General Manager shall be in premises situated at the corner of Grey and Featherston Streets, in the City of Wellington, or such other place in the City of Wellington as the General Manager with the consent of the Board may from time to time appoint.

AGENTS.

3. Agents may receive proposals for any contracts authorised by the said Act, and, to such extent as they are authorised by their letters of appointment, may also receive any premiums or payments on behalf of the General Manager, and give valid and sufficient receipts for the same.

4. With the consent of the Postmaster-General, Postmasters may be appointed as agents for all or any one or more of the purposes mentioned in the immediately preceding clause, and to receive and pay moneys under the said Act.

5. Except in so far as they are specially empowered so to do by their letters of appointment or by these regulations, agents shall have no authority to enter into, alter, or discharge contracts made under the said Act, or to in any way bind the General Manager.

METHOD OF OBTAINING INSURANCE.

6. Any person desiring to enter into any contract for insurance (herein referred to as “the proposer”) shall make his proposal for the same in a form applicable thereto, and shall make and sign such declaration or declarations in connection therewith prior to the issue of the policy, or on any renewal thereof, as the General Manager may require. The proposal may be delivered to any agent of the General Manager, but shall be subject to the General Manager’s approval, and he may accept or decline the same accordingly.

7. Upon payment of the premium payable in respect of any proposal accepted by the General Manager, the General Manager shall cause to be issued and delivered to the proposer a policy in the form applicable to the particular contract.

CONDITIONS OF POLICY.

8. Every policy shall be subject to the following conditions, which shall be indorsed thereon:—

(1.) Description of the Risk.—For the purpose of the insurance of any property, whether buildings, or goods, machinery, or other property deposited therein, the applicant shall, in his written proposal, state the nature of his interest, and specify of what materials the buildings are respectively constructed, where situated, and how occupied; whether any manufacture or hazardous trade is carried on or hazardous articles are deposited or kept therein, and, if so, shall describe the nature and quantities thereof; whether any apparatus whereby heat or light is produced exists on the premises (other than ordinary fireplaces), and, if so, shall specify particularly the nature thereof; whether there are any contiguous or adjacent buildings, and, if so, shall describe the same: and if such proposal does not truly and circumstantially describe the property, and the several particulars regarding the same, as aforesaid, so that the nature and degree of the risk may be justly estimated, the policy of insurance thereon shall be null and void. The insurance on any buildings shall not be held to include anything outside thereof, such as fences, outhouses, sheds, or other buildings, unless the same are specially mentioned and valued in the policy. No furniture, fixtures, machinery, or other legal or constructive immovables, nor any plate-glass doors or windows contained in or appertaining to any building, shall be held to be insured unless the same are specially named and valued in the body of the policy. Every building detached, or divided from another by walls, must be separately valued for insurance, as must also the contents of every such