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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Declaring a Road in Block XI, Makuri Survey District,
Pahiatua County, to be a Government Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth
day of February, 1908.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred
by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excel-
lency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, act-
ing by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare
that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on
and after the date of this Order in Council, be a Govern-
ment road.

SCHEDULE.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as
above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief
Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land
District.

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

Consenting to Land in the City of Auckland being taken
for a Courthouse.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth
day of February, 1908.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” it is,
in section fifteen thereof, inter alia, enacted that,
except for the purpose of a railway or for defence purposes,
or for the purposes of any other public work to be made
under the authority of a special Act, there shall not be taken
any land occupied by any building, yard, garden, orchard,
or vineyard, or in bona fide occupation as an ornamental
park or pleasure-ground, without the previous consent of
the Governor in Council :

And whereas the land mentioned in the Schedule is
required to be taken under the said Act for a Courthouse :
And whereas a portion of the said land is occupied by build-
ings and yards, and it is expedient to give such consent as
aforesaid :

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of
the powers conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1905,”
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby consent
to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken
for Courthouse purposes as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

In the Land District of Auckland; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23137,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured red.

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

Regulations with respect to the Sale of Food and Drugs
Act, 1907.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth
day of February, 1908.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section twenty-seven of
the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1907, that the
Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council
gazetted, make regulations for, among other things, pre-
scribing the standard of strength, weight, quality, or quan-
tity of any food or drug, or of any ingredient or component
part thereof; prohibiting the addition of any specified thing,
or of more than the specified quantity or proportion thereof,
to any food or drug; prescribing the method of analysis of
any food or drug; and generally for carrying out the pur-
poses of that Act :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the follow-
ing regulations, and doth hereby declare that such regula-
tions shall take effect on and after the first day of March,
one thousand nine hundred and eight.

REGULATIONS.

BREAD.

Definition.

BREAD is a porous food substance obtained by moistening
and baking flour, with provision for the mechanical separa-
tion of the dough by air or carbonic-acid gas.

Standard.

Bread shall contain not more than one-fifth (0·2) per
cent. of ash insoluble in acid and, in the crumb substance
(exclusive of crust), not more than forty (40) per cent. of
water.

Prohibited Addition.

The addition of alum or other foreign substance to dough
or to bread is hereby prohibited.

PRESERVED FRUITS.

Standard.

Preserved fruit is any sound fruit or fruit substance pre-
served in a dry state or in syrup, fruit-juice, or water.

Prohibited Addition.

The addition of salicylic acid, boric acid, benzoic acid, or
other preservative substance (except sugar) to preserved fruit,
or to the medium in which it is preserved, is hereby pro-
hibited.

COFFEE.

Definition.

Coffee is the seed of the Coffea arabica or the Coffea
liberica.

Standard.

Ground roasted coffee shall contain not less than ten (10)
per cent. of fat, not more than one (1) per cent. of saccharine
matter, not more than six (6) per cent. of ash, of which the
proportion of soluble ash shall not be less than seventy-five
(75) per cent., and shall contain no chicory.

COFFEE AND CHICORY.

Standard.

Coffee and chicory is any compound of coffee and chicory
containing not less than fifty (50) per cent. of coffee.

CHICORY AND COFFEE.

Standard.

Chicory and coffee is any compound of chicory and coffee
containing not less than fifty (50) per cent. of coffee.