1796
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby revoke so
much of the said Proclamation as affects 46 acres 3 roods
7 perches (shown coloured yellow on the plan marked
P.W.D. 25290, deposited in the office of the Minister of
Public Works, at Wellington), being the whole of the land
lastly mentioned in the Schedule to the said Proclamation.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honour-
able Sir Robert Stout, Knight Commander of
the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George, Chief Justice, Administrator
of the Government in and over His Majesty’s
Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies;
and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion,
at the Government House, at Wellington, this
eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and ten.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Defining the Middle-line of a Further Portion of the Helens-
vile Northwards Railway.

(l.s.) ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Helensville-Northwards Railway (here-
inafter termed “the said railway”) is a railway the
construction of which is authorised by the Public Works
Act, 1908: And whereas the said railway has been partly
constructed, and it has been determined to construct and
maintain a further portion of the same:

Now, therefore, I, Robert Stout, the Administrator of the
Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance
and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on
me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and in exercise of
every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in
this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle-
line of the said further portion of the said railway shall be
that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING in Pukearenga Block at a point marked
81 miles 40 chains, which point is distant about 39 chains
due south of the northern boundary and about 20½ chains
due west of the eastern boundary of Block II, Otamatea
Survey District, and is also a point on the railway as
described in a Proclamation dated the 1st day of December,
1909, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 100, of
the 2nd day of December, 1909; proceeding thence generally
in a north-westerly direction for a distance of about 3 miles
20 chains, and passing in, into, through, or over the follow-
ing lands—viz., Pukearenga Block, Block II, Otamatea
Survey District; Native land Kaitara No. 1 (256), and
Okahurewa Block (4302, red), Block XIII, Waipu Survey
District—and terminating in the said Okahurewa Block
(4302, red), at a point marked 84 miles 60 chains, and
distant 212 chains due west of the eastern boundary and
about 76 chains due north of the southern boundary of
Block XIII, Waipu Survey District: including all adjoin-
ing and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, tracks,
rivers, streams, and watercourses: all in the Land District
of Auckland: as the same is delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 26267, deposited in the office of the Minister of
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honour-
able Sir Robert Stout, Knight Commander of
the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George, Chief Justice, Administrator
of the Government in and over His Majesty’s
Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies;
and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion,
at the Government House, at Wellington, this
twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and ten.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amending Rules for Life-saving Appliances for Ships.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of June, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS rules as to life-saving appliances for ships
were made by Order in Council dated the sixth
day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of
the same month:

And whereas such rules were amended by Order in
Council dated the twenty-third day of November, one
thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-sixth day of the same
month:

And whereas it is desirable to further amend such rules
with regard to water and provisions with which ships’
boats are to be provided:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon
him by section one hundred and ninety-seven of the Ship-
ping and Seamen Act, 1908, 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 Dominion, doth hereby revoke the First Schedule
of the said Order in Council of the twenty-third day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and three, and doth
hereby make the following rule in lieu of Rule (5) con-
tained in such Schedule, namely:—

(5.) Equipments for Collapsible or other Boats and for
Life-rafts.—In order to be properly equipped each boat
shall be provided as follows:—

(a.) With the full single-bank complement of oars and
two spare oars.

(b.) With two plugs for each plug-hole, attached with
lanyards or chains, and one set and a half of
thole-pins or crutches attached to the boat by
sound lanyards.

(c.) With a sea-anchor or baler, a rudder and a tiller
or yoke and yoke-lines, a painter of sufficient
length, and a boat-hook. The rudder and baler
to be attached to the boat by sufficiently long
lanyards, and kept ready for use. In boats
where there may be a difficulty in fitting a
rudder, a steering-oar may be provided instead.

(d.) With sufficient fresh water to give one pint per
day for each person the boat is certified to
carry, with sufficient plasmon biscuits, made of
wheat-flour with 20 per cent. of plasmon, weigh-
ing 2 oz. or 4 oz. each, to give 8 oz. per day for
each person, and with sufficient chocolate, in
1 oz. squares, to give 2 oz. per day for each
person; home-trade ships to carry two days’
supply, and ships plying beyond home-trade
limits four days’ supply; with matches, six blue
lights, twelve fish-hooks, and three fishing-lines.
The water shall be kept in airtight metal tanks
or in proper kegs, and shall be kept in such part
of the boat as may be approved by the Surveyor.
Each water-vessel shall have attached to it a
dipper or other approved means of getting the
water out without waste, and when tanks are
used they shall have screw tops 3½ in. inside
measurement, each top to have two snugs ¾ in.
deep and ¾ in. diameter.

The other articles enumerated in this subsec-
tion shall be kept in airtight and watertight
receptacles, with screw tops 5 in. inside measure-
ment, each top to have two snugs each ¾ in. deep
and ¾ in. diameter, and such receptacles shall be
securely fastened in the boats and life-rafts:

Provided that screw tops which were procured
without the prescribed snugs by shipowners prior
to the twenty-third day of November, one thou-
sand nine hundred and three, may be used if
they are made so that they can be screwed up
and unscrewed without difficulty, and the Sur-
veyor considers they are suitable:

Provided, further, that boats and rafts sup-
plied prior to the date hereof with water and
provisions in accordance with the rule made by