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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities con-
ferred by section ten of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amend-
ment Act, 1902,” doth hereby validate the said recited public
notice of the said special order, and doth hereby declare that
the advertisements in connection therewith shall be and be
deemed to have been as good, valid, and effectual as if the
said public notice had been duly and regularly given, and
that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not be
called in question by reason only of the irregularity afore-
said.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating the Public Notification of the Special Order in
connection with the Loan of £700 applied for by the
Waimarino County Council.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of April, 1907.

Present :
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Waimarino County Council lately pro-
posed to raise a loan of seven hundred pounds, under
“The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of
reforming and metalling the Waipuna Ridge Road from the
junction of the Pipiriki and Waipuna Ridge Road to-
wards Section No. 14: And whereas the public notifica-
tion of the special order making the special rate was pub-
lished in the Taihape and Waimarino News for four weeks,
but was not published once in each week of the four weeks
immediately preceding the date of the subsequent meeting
at which the special order was confirmed, as required by
section eleven of “The Counties Act Amendment Act,
1903”: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have
not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to
validate the said notification :

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 pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
by section ten of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment
Act, 1902,” doth hereby validate the said public notification
of the said special order, and doth hereby declare that the
advertisements in connection therewith shall be and be
deemed to have been as good, valid, and effectual as if the
said public notification had been duly and regularly given,
and that the proceedings relative to the said loan shall not
be called in question by reason only of the irregularity
aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Products Export Act, 1903,”
governing the Grading and Export of Phormium Fibre.
—Notice No. 1116.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of April, 1907.

Present :
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by “The Products Export Act,
1903” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), 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, as from the date on which this
Order in Council comes into force, revoke the regulations
made under “The Flax Grading and Export Act, 1901,”
on the seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and
two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth
day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, and doth
hereby make the following regulations, and doth also declare
that the said regulations shall come into force and take
effect on and after the second day of September, one thousand
nine hundred and seven :—

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purposes of these regulations,—
   “Grader” means any grader of phormium fibre ap-
   pointed under the said Act.
   “Mill” means any premises in which phormium fibre
   is baled for export.

“Miller” means the occupier of a mill, and includes the
occupier’s agent or manager, and also includes in
the case of a company the managing director,
manager, secretary, or other principal officer of the
company in New Zealand.
“Owner” means any owner, shipper, or consignor of
phormium fibre, and includes the agent of any such
owner, shipper, or consignor, and also includes in
the case of a company the managing director,
manager, secretary, or other principal officer of the
company in New Zealand.
“Phormium fibre” means the dressed fibre of the plant
Phormium tenax, but does not include tow.

2. All phormium fibre for export shall be packed in bales
   of the following dimensions, or thereabouts :—
   Length after leaving press . . . . 4 feet.
   Width after leaving press . . . . 2 feet.
   No bale shall contain any hank exceeding 5 lb. in weight.
   Each bale shall be securely bound with five ropes made of
   phormium fibre. Ropes of tow are not to be used.

3. Every miller shall cause to be placed in each bale of
   phormium fibre baled by him for export, before it leaves his
   mill, a piece of wire about two feet long, bearing a tin tag at
   one end and a stout leather tag at the other; the tin tag to
   be in the middle of the bale, and the leather tag to hang
   from the end of the bale, as shown in diagram No. 1 in the
   Second Schedule hereto.

The tin tag shall be of the shape shown in diagram No. 2
in the said Second Schedule, and shall be four and a quarter
inches long by two and a quarter inches wide, and shall have
impressed into it, in letters three-quarters of an inch in
height, the registered brand of the mill where the fibre was
baled, and a distinctive number, which shall be deemed the
number of the bale.

The leather tag shall be of the shape shown in diagram
No. 3 in the said Second Schedule, and shall be five inches
long by two and a quarter inches wide. It shall have
impressed into it, in letters three-quarters of an inch in
height, the registered brand of the mill where the fibre was
baled and the said distinctive number of the bale. A space
measuring two and a half inches by one and a quarter inches
shall be left on the leather tag to enable the grader to affix
the grade-mark in the position indicated in diagram No. 3
aforesaid.

4. Every miller who delivers from a mill for export any
   phormium fibre baled otherwise than in accordance with the
   foregoing provisions shall be liable to a penalty not exceed-
   ing twenty-five pounds.

5. Every miller shall, in respect of each mill of which he
   is the occupier, apply to the Secretary for Agriculture,
   Wellington, for registration of the brand intended to be
   used by him in compliance with clause three of these regula-
   tions, and no miller shall use any such brand until he has
   been advised by the said Secretary that it has been regis-
   tered. Every such application for registration shall be in or
   to the effect of the form numbered 1 set out in the First
   Schedule hereto. Forms can be obtained free of charge from
   the said Secretary. No brand shall be registered which in
   the opinion of the said Secretary is likely to lead to mistakes
   or confusion.

Brands now used by millers of which particulars have been
forwarded to the said Secretary in accordance with the regu-
lations hereby revoked shall not be used on and after the
date on which these regulations come into force, unless the
said brands have been registered by the said Secretary as
herein provided.

Any miller disposing of the mill in respect of which any
brand has been registered as provided in this clause may,
by writing addressed to the said Secretary, transfer his right
to such brand to the person to whom he has disposed of the
mill, and the said Secretary shall thereupon alter the register
accordingly.

No fee will be charged for the registration or transfer of
millers’ brands.

The said Secretary may at any time, after giving him one
month’s notice in writing, cancel any miller’s brand if satis-
fied that it has not been used during the preceding three
years.

6. The stores (hereinafter called “appointed grading-
   stores”) occupied by the undermentioned companies or
   bodies at the respective ports indicated are hereby appointed
   the only stores in New Zealand for the examination and
   grading therein of phormium fibre :—
   At Auckland—
   The New Zealand Shipping Company (Limited).
   The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company (Limited).
   At Napier—
   The New Zealand Shipping Company (Limited).
   At Foxton—
   The New Zealand Shipping Company (Limited).
   The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company (Limited).
   At Wellington—
   The Wellington Harbour Board.