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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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JELLY.
Definition.
Jelly is a fruit compound prepared from the juice of fruit and sugar.

Standard.
Jelly shall contain no vegetable substance other than that derived from the sound whole fruit or fruits of the variety or varieties designated, nor any preservative substance other than sugar, nor any foreign substance of the nature of gelatine or starch-jelly, nor any foreign flavouring substance, nor any glucose other than standard glucose.

Prohibited Addition.
The addition of colouring-matter to mixed or compounded jam or marmalade, or to jelly, is hereby prohibited.

BAKING-POWDER.
Definition.
Baking-powder is a salt or mixture of salts (with or without a farinaceous diluent substance) which evolves carbon-dioxide on being moistened or heated, and which may be used in the preparation of articles of food as a chemical-leavening substance.

Standard.
Baking-powder shall contain not more than one (1) per cent. of sulphates, calculated as potassium-sulphate, and shall contain no alum, and shall yield not less than ten (10) per cent. by weight of carbon-dioxide.

PEPPER.
Definition.
Pepper is the dried pulp of the Piper nigrum. Black pepper is pepper ground without decortication. White pepper is ground decorticated pepper. Cayenne pepper or cayenne is the dried ripe fruit of various species of Capsicum.

Standards.
Black pepper shall contain not more than seven (7) per cent. of total ash, and not less than seven (7) per cent. of extractive matter soluble in hot ethylic alcohol. White pepper shall contain not more than three and one-half (3·5) per cent. of total ash. Cayenne pepper or cayenne shall contain not less than fifteen (15) per cent. of ether extractives, and not more than six (6) per cent. of total ash.

Prohibited Addition.
The addition of starch, or colouring-matter, or any other foreign substance to black pepper, or white pepper, or cayenne pepper, or cayenne, is hereby prohibited.

MUSTARD.
Definition.
Mustard is the ground seed of the Sinapis alba or Sinapis nigra (Brassica alba or Brassica nigra).

Standard.
Mustard shall contain not more than two and one-half (2·5) per cent. of starch, and not more than eight (8) per cent. of total ash.

SAUCES AND PICKLES.
The addition of preservative substances other than the common condimental substances to sauces and pickles is hereby prohibited.

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

Regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act.

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 by section twenty-seven of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1907, it is provided that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations for, among other things, securing the cleanliness and freedom from contamination of any food in the course of its carriage, delivery, or exposure for sale, and for securing the cleanliness of places, receptacles, appliances, and vehicles used in such carriage or delivery: And whereas it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth with respect to the carriage, delivery, and exposure for sale of milk for human consumption or use:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth, for the purposes aforesaid, hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS.

The following regulations shall apply to the carriage, delivery, and exposure for sale of milk sold or offered or exposed for sale for human consumption or use, but shall not apply to milk supplied to a creamery or dairy-factory for manufacturing purposes:—

1. No person shall stand or allow to stand upon any public footpath or pavement any milk, or any milk-cans or other vessels or utensils used for the carriage of milk.

2. No washing or rinsing of milk-cans or utensils must take place unless in a properly constructed building.

3. No manipulation of milk such as mixing must take place unless in a properly constructed building.

4. No preservative of any kind may be added to milk sold as fresh milk.

5. No person shall use for the carriage of milk any cart used for the carting of manure or any substance likely to cause injury to milk.

6. No vessel the substance, construction, or condition of which is likely to contaminate milk or depreciate its nutritive value may be used for the holding of milk.

7. All carts used for the conveyance of milk must be washed clean every day.

8. All milk, unless in the actual process of conveyance, must be stored out of the direct rays of the sun.

9. No milk must be exposed for sale unless in vessels so covered as to preclude any contamination of the milk.

10. All measures, dippers, and other utensils used in the sale of milk must be of such construction, substance, and in such condition as will preclude any contamination of the milk.

11. No room which is used as a kitchen or living-room or wherein any one sleeps, or which opens directly off any room in which any one sleeps, may be used as a milk-shop or milk-store.

12. There must be attached to every shop where milk is sold an efficient supply of hot and cold water, and apparatus suitable for the cleansing and sterilising of the vessels used.

13. No water-closet, pan closet, or pit privy, cesspool, or urinal must be within, communicate directly with, or ventilate into any dairy or any room used as a milk-store or a milk-shop.

14. No person suffering from any infectious disease, whether notifiable under law or not, may take part in the conveyance, treatment, or sale of milk.

15. No pan closet, pit privy, cesspool, or urinal must be within 10 ft. of any milk-shop or milk-store.

16. All milk-shops and milk-stores must be kept in such a state of cleanliness as will prevent the contamination of the milk.

17. No shop where milk is sold may be used for the sale of any article likely to affect or cause contamination of the milk.

18. All milk for transit must be consigned in vessels of approved pattern, and such vessels must during transit by rail or boat be sealed or locked.

19. If any person fails to observe or commits a breach of any of the foregoing regulations, he shall, upon conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

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

Excepting Land from the Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and increasing Area that may be acquired.

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 by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The