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to relieving-duty, shall be paid actual expenses only during the period of such relieving-duty; claims for such actual expenses to be supported by vouchers and to be subject to revision by the Secretary. Cadets entitled to lodging-allowance, when appointed to relieving-duty involving separate payment for such duty, shall not be entitled to claim lodging-allowance for a longer time than one week after the relieving-duty commences.

Only actual expenses will be paid for day of return to home or arrival at station. Cost of transport by land and sea will be paid by the Department.

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

Warden appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eleven of “The Mining Act, 1898,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint fit persons to be Wardens, who shall hold office during the Governor's pleasure:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the said section eleven of “The Mining Act, 1898,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby appoint

ROBERT JOHN ACHESON, Esq.,

to be a Warden, to hold and exercise the duties of such office under and subject to the provisions of the said Act during pleasure, on and from the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five.

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

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same (hereinafter called “the said Acts”), 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 make the following regulations respecting the deer-shooting season within the Otago Acclimatisation District.

REGULATIONS.

1. LICENSES to shoot and kill deer (bucks or stags only) in the Otago Acclimatisation District, except within the area described in Regulation No. 6 of these regulations, will be issued under the hand of the Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, on the recommendation of the secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society, in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Acts and these regulations. For every such license to kill red deer a fee of £3 sterling will be charged; and no holder of any such license as aforesaid shall kill more than four stags under or by virtue of such license, and no stag with less than eight points shall be killed. And for every such license to kill fallow deer a fee of £2 sterling will be charged; and no holder of any such license as aforesaid shall kill more than four bucks under or by virtue of such license.

The said Chief Postmaster is hereby appointed and authorised to issue and sign the said licenses.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to kill fallow deer (bucks only), as provided in Regulation No. 1 of these regulations, from the 15th March, 1905, to the 29th April, 1905, and red deer (stags only), as provided in Regulation No. 1 of these regulations, from the 1st April, 1905, to the 31st May, 1905. Ball cartridge only to be used.

3. No doe, hind, or fawn will be allowed to be killed on any pretext whatever; and no dogs will be allowed to accompany either the licensee or any attendant he may have with him.

4. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear days before such date.

5. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorising any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

6. No deer shall be shot within an area containing about 24,800 acres in one block, being parts of Mid-Hawea, Longslip, Lower Hawea, and Lindis Districts, plans of which area will be issued by the secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society to persons to whom licenses to shoot deer are granted.

SCHEDULE.

No. . License to take or kill Game (Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £ , is hereby authorised to take or kill deer (bucks or stags only) of not less than points within the District of , from the day of 1905, to the day of , 1905 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions of “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the amendments thereof.

Dated at , this day of , 190 .

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

Authorising the Exchange of a Reserve in Wellington for other Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto was heretofore duly set apart as a gravel reserve: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the said land for that described in the second column of the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and the third section of “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1889,” doth hereby declare that the said land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto may be exchanged for the land described in the second column of the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

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