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(e.) Hæmorrhage: its varieties, and the treatment of each.
(f.) Antiseptics in midwifery, and the way to prepare and use them.
(g.) The management of the puerperal patient, including the use of the clinical thermometer and of the catheter.
(h.) The management (including the feeding) of infants, and the signs of the important diseases which may develop during the first ten days.
(i.) The duties of a midwife and of a monthly nurse.
(j.) Obstetric emergencies, and how the midwife should deal with them until the arrival of a doctor.
(k.) Puerperal fever: its nature, causes, and symptoms. The elements of house-sanitation. The disinfection of person, clothing, and appliances.

2. Any candidate who during the examination shows a want of acquaintance with the ordinary subjects of elementary education may be rejected on that ground alone.

3. The examinations shall be held half-yearly at such times and places as are from time to time notified by the Registrar.

4. Candidates for the examination must give notice to the Registrar at least three weeks before the date so notified.

5. Every maternity hospital shall be under the charge of a Matron appointed under the said Act, who shall have full control of the institution, subject to the directions of the Minister.

6. The Matron shall deliver lectures to the nurses, and shall teach and train the pupil nurses in general hospital duties when necessary, as well as in the special duties of midwife and monthly nurse.

7. Every Matron shall keep a register of patients admitted, in the form supplied by the Registrar, and a cash-book for fees received. A copy of all entries made in these books during the previous month shall be sent to the Registrar within the first week of the next succeeding month.

8. Not more than twenty pupil nurses shall be entered on the roll of a maternity hospital at one time, and of these not more than ten may be nurses registered under “The Nurses Registration Act, 1901.”

9. For every maternity hospital medical practitioners shall be appointed by the Governor annually to deliver lectures (not less than one every two weeks) to the pupil nurses attending such hospital.

10. Such practitioners shall take pupil nurses out to cases of labour when practicable, and shall attend any cases of labour in the maternity hospital which are abnormal or which require the administration of an anaesthetic.

11. No pupil nurse shall present herself for examination if she has missed three or more lectures during her period of training.

12. No pupil nurse shall be entitled to a certificate under the said Act unless she has attended not less than twenty cases of labour, and has also nursed twenty lying-in women during the ten days following labour.

13. The fees payable under the said Act shall be as follows:—
    (a.) In-door patients: At the rate of one pound a week for the time the patient is in the hospital before labour, and at the rate of one pound ten shillings a week from the time of confinement. (For free patients, see regulation 14.)
    (b.) Out-patients: One pound; such fee to cover delivery of the patient, and daily visits for the subsequent ten days.
    (c.) Pupil nurses: If registered under “The Nurses Registration Act, 1901,” ten pounds for six months’ training; in all other cases, twenty pounds for twelve months’ training.
    (d.) Midwives: If registered under either paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of section 4 of the said Act, ten shillings for registration, and two shillings in the month of January of each year when applying for renewal of registration.
    (e.) Midwives: If registered as the holder of a certificate in midwifery under the said Act, one pound for registration, and two shillings in the month of January of each year when applying for renewal of registration.

14. When it is alleged by any woman or her husband that they are unable to pay the prescribed patient’s fees, the Matron shall forward a report of the circumstances of the case to the Minister, and on consideration of such report the Minister may either reduce such fees or remit them altogether, as he thinks fit.

15. No midwife shall make use of any instrument to aid delivery, or administer chloroform or any other anaesthetic.

16. Any midwife making use of an instrument to aid delivery, or administering chloroform or any other anaesthetic, or procuring or attempting to procure abortion by any means (chemical or mechanical), shall be deemed guilty of a malpractice.

17. Any society or person making a donation of £50 or giving an annual subscription of £10 to a State maternity hospital shall have the right annually to nominate a patient at such hospital free of charge.

18. Every notice by a registered midwife of intention to practise or to continue the practice of midwifery shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
Under “The Midwives Act, 1904.”

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PRACTISE MIDWIFERY.
To the Registrar of Midwives, Wellington.
I, [Full name], a midwife registered under “The Midwives Act, 1904,” hereby give you notice of my intention to practise [or to continue the practice of] midwifery at ; and I hereby declare as follows:—

1. My place of abode is .
2. My registered number is .
3. I was first registered on the day of , and have since practised as a midwife at .
   Dated at , this day of , 19 .
   [Signature.]

I certify that I am acquainted with the above-named and that the said notice was signed in my presence.

Medical Practitioner [Minister of Religion or Justice of the Peace].

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

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Petone Domain.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of April, 1905.

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

WHEREAS by section nine of “The Domain Boards Act, 1904” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, appoint any local authority to be the Domain Board having, subject to “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” control of any public domain:
And whereas by an Order in Council made under the provisions of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” on the seventeenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, the land described in the Schedule hereto was brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”:
And whereas it appears expedient to appoint a Domain Board to control the said domain:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby appoint

THE PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL

to be the Petone Domain Board, having control of the Petone Domain, described in the said Schedule hereto, for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the said Act, and doth hereby appoint Monday, the eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and five, at half past seven o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Borough Council Chambers, Petone, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE.
PETONE DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres and 13 perches, more or less, being Section No. 93, Block XIII., Belmont Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 86 of the said Block XIII.; towards the south-east by Section No. 3, Block XIII., Belmont Survey District, and by Subdivision No. 11 and public road; towards the south-west by Subdivisions Q and 9c respectively; and towards the west by Maungaraki Road: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 49197, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered green.

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