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(2.) Cease to use or occupy the said slip or shed for a
period of thirty days; or
(3.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought
under the operation of any Act for the time being
in force relating to bankruptcy; or
(4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause three of
these conditions—
then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council,
and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and
determined by the Governor in Council without any notice
to the licensee or other proceeding whatsoever; and publica-
tion in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council contain-
ing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the licensee,
and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order
in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby
granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.
13. The construction of the slip and shed shall be sufficient
evidence of the acceptance by the licensee of the terms and
conditions of this Order in Council.

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

Extending the Close Season for Seals.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
ninth day of April, 1905.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (herein-
after termed “the said Act”), it is, among other
things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time
to time make regulations (which shall have general force
and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and
effect only in any waters and places specified therein) for
prescribing, among other things, a close season for seals, and
for extending any close season so prescribed:

And whereas it is further provided by the said Act that
every person who, during any close season for seals, takes
any seals is liable for every such offence to a penalty not
exceeding five hundred pounds, and in addition thereto is
liable to a further penalty, not exceeding twenty pounds, in
respect of every seal so taken:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-first
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
four, the months of January, February, March, April, May,
and June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, were
prescribed a close season for seals:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-ninth
day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four, the
said close season for seals was extended up to the thirtieth
day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five:

And whereas it is desirable to further extend such close
season for seals:

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 make the regulations set forth in the Schedule
hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth order
that such regulations shall have force and effect throughout
the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and
brackish waters of the colony, and on all shores of such
waters or any part thereof.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

1. THE close season for seals prescribed by regulations made
   by Order in Council dated the 21st day of December, 1894,
   and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 1, of the
   4th day of January, 1895, and which was, by Order in Council
   dated the 29th day of April, 1904, extended up to the 30th
   day of June, 1905, is hereby further extended up to the 30th
   day of June, 1906.

2. Every person who, during the close season prescribed
   as aforesaid, takes any seal is liable to a penalty of not less
   than £25 nor more than £500, and in addition thereto is
   liable to a further penalty of not less than £1 nor more than
   £20 in respect of every seal so taken. The taking of seals
   means and includes the killing, catching, dredging for,
   raising, or hunting of any seal, or any attempt so to do.

3. No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, consign for
   sale, buy for sale, or have in possession any seal, or any
   skins, oil, or blubber from any seal, in any manner in con-
   travention of the said Act or of these regulations; and every
   person so doing is liable for every such offence to a penalty
   of not less than £1 nor more than £20.

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

B

Trustees for Wharf at Kawhia.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
ninth day of April, 1905.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the thirtieth
day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 54, of the
third day of July following, the management of a wharf at
Kawhia was vested in Thomas Goodfellow, D’Arcy Hamil-
ton, and George H. Buckeridge, as trustees for the inhabit-
ants of the district:

And whereas the said Thomas Goodfellow resigned his
trusteeship, and William Wilson McCardle, of Pirongia,
was, by Order in Council dated the fifth day of June, one
thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette No. 48, of the eighteenth day of the
same month, appointed to act as trustee in his stead jointly
with the said D’Arcy Hamilton and George H. Buckeridge:

And whereas the said George H. Buckeridge resigned his
trusteeship, and Thomas Oliver Turnbull, of Kawhia, was,
by Order in Council dated the twenty-seventh day of June,
one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette No. 56, of the thirtieth day of the
same month, appointed to act as trustee in his stead
jointly with the said D’Arcy Hamilton and William Wilson
McCardle:

And whereas the said D’Arcy Hamilton has resigned his
trusteeship, and John Hustler, of Kawhia, is willing to act
as trustee in his stead:

And whereas the said Thomas Oliver Turnbull has re-
signed his trusteeship, and Frederick Alexander Pearson, of
Kawhia, is willing to act as trustee in his stead:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said Orders in
Council of the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine
hundred and two, and of the twenty-seventh day of June,
one thousand nine hundred and four, as to the said D’Arcy
Hamilton and Thomas Oliver Turnbull, and to substitute as
trustees in their place the said John Hustler and Frederick
Alexander Pearson:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred upon him by “The Harbours
Act Amendment Act, 1883,” and of all other powers and
authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, doth hereby revoke the said Orders in Council
of the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and
two, and of the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand
nine hundred and four, in so far as the same relate to the
said D’Arcy Hamilton and Thomas Oliver Turnbull, and in
their stead doth hereby appoint the said John Hustler and
Frederick Alexander Pearson to be trustees under the said
Order in Council jointly with the said William Wilson
McCardle.

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

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Ranfurly
Domain.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
ninth day of April, 1905.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of “The Domain Boards
Act, 1904” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it
is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, with
respect to any public domain, appoint such person or per-
sons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain
Board having, subject to “The Public Domains Act, 1881,”
control of such domain:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto
was constituted a public domain under “The Public
Domains Act, 1881,” by an Order in Council made and
issued on the seventeenth day of March, one thousand
nine hundred and five, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 27, of the twenty-third day of March, one
thousand nine hundred and five:

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 exercise of the powers conferred
by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice of the