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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

particular, the Minister of Justice may allow such additional fee as may appear to him to be reasonable. This Order in Council shall come into force and take effect on and after the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

To the Coroner or Justice of the Peace, other than a salaried Stipendiary Magistrate, holding any inquest—
For every inquest .. .. .. .. 1 1 0
To the Coroner being a salaried Stipendiary Magistrate holding any inquest—
For every inquest —.. .. .. 0 10 6
And, in addition to the above fees, mileage for any inquest held at a distance exceeding one mile from the residence of the person holding the same, per mile, one way .. .. .. 0 1 0
To a medical witness—
For attending and giving evidence when not having been required to make a post mortem examination .. .. .. 1 1 0
For making a post mortem examination when required so to do by the Coroner or Justice of the Peace holding such inquest, and attending to give evidence of the result .. .. 3 3 0
And, in addition to the above fees, where the residence of such medical witness shall be more than one mile distant from the place where the inquest is held, mileage, per mile, one way .. .. .. 0 1 0
To the holder of a publican’s license into whose house or premises occupied therewith shall be received any dead body for the purpose of an inquest .. .. .. .. 1 0 0

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations respecting Sale and Export for Sale of Stags’ Heads.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, 1905.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by “The Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1903” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations for prohibiting the sale of stags’ heads: And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth:

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 following, viz. :—

1. Except with the consent in writing of the Colonial Secretary first obtained, no head or antler of any stag shall be sold or offered for sale within the colony, nor shall any person, without such consent as aforesaid, export or attempt to export from the colony for sale beyond the colony any such head or antler. No such consent shall be granted unless upon a written application from the person desiring to effect a sale; and the Colonial Secretary may require such evidence or particulars relating to the proposed sale as he may deem necessary.

2. If any person shall commit a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations he shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

3. These regulations shall take effect on the day of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

“The Education Act, 1904.”—Class-books for Public Schools.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, 1905.

Present:

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

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1904,” the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby revoke all regulations heretofore made under the authority of the said Act prescribing class-books for public schools, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations hereto annexed; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

Subject to such restrictions as the Education Board of any district may impose, any books described in the following list may be used in any public school :—

READING — (a.) Literary and General Readers.—Collins’s New Zealand Graphic Readers; Longmans’ New Zealand Readers; Nelson’s Royal Crown Readers; Whitcombe and Tombs’s Imperial Readers.

(b.) Geographical Readers.—Longmans’ Pictorial Geographical Readers and New Zealand Geographical Reader; Round the Empire (Parkin); The World and its People—Australasia. The World (Nelson and Sons); Arnold’s Britannia Readers.

(c.) Historical Readers.—Longmans’ Simple Stories; Historical Readers 1 and 4, Public School Series (Whitcombe and Tombs); Murdoch’s Struggle for Freedom (Whitcombe and Tombs); Gillies’s Elementary Studies in English History (Whitcombe and Tombs); Citizen Reader and Laws of Every-day Life (Cassell).

(d.) Other Supplementary Readers.—Zealandia School Paper; Schoolmates (Brown and Co.); Reeves’s New Zealand Reader (Government Printer); Drummond’s Nature in New Zealand (Whitcombe and Tombs); Junior Temple Reader; Bell’s Reading-books; Eyes and No Eyes (Cassell).

WRITING.—Blank books, or any copybooks in which the style is upright or nearly so, clear, and continuous.

ARITHMETIC.—Pendlebury’s Shilling Arithmetic; Whitcombe and Tombs’s New Southern Cross Arithmetic, Standards II. to VI.

COMPOSITION.—Longmans’ Composition; Goyen’s Composition (Macmillan); Nelson’s Illustrated Composition Series; Public School English Composition (Whitcombe and Tombs).

RECITATION.—Globe Poetry-books; Southern Cross Poetry-books, junior and senior (Whitcombe and Tombs).

GEOGRAPHY.—Southern Cross Geography (Whitcombe and Tombs).

SCIENCE.—Saxton and Sharman’s Practical Physics (Whitcombe and Tombs); Kirk’s Elementary Agriculture (Whitcombe and Tombs); Thomson’s Introductory Botany (Government Printer); Miall’s Object-lessons from Nature (Cassell); Murché’s Physiology (Blackie); Furneaux’ Elementary Physiology (Longmans).

DRAWING.—Blank Drawing-books (recommended); Colonial Drawing-books; New Zealand Drawing-books; Southern Cross Drawing-books.

SINGING.—Curwen’s Standard Course “Blackbird.” and Zealandia Song-book, Parts I., II., and III.; other Tonic Sol-fa publications.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

“The Land Titles Protection Act, 1902.” — Section 39 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” to apply to certain Succession Order.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, 1905.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by an order of the Native Land Court dated the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, Te Roera Tareha, Kurupo Tareha, Hineiaia Tareha, Kiwikirangi Tareha, Airini Tonore, and Whitiwhiti were appointed successors to the interests of Tareha Moananui, deceased, in the Kaiwaka Block: And whereas it is alleged that the form of such order is in contravention of law: And whereas Te Roera Tareha, Kurupo Tareha, Airini Tonore, and Whitiwhiti, four of the successors so appointed as aforesaid, have made application for “The Land Titles Protection Act, 1902,” to enable them to apply to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, under section thirty-nine of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” to have the said order amended by the omission therefrom of certain words: And whereas it is expedient that an inquiry should be held under the provisions of the said last-mentioned section:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, for the purpose of enabling such