May 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1691

Recreation Reserve in Auckland Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of May, 1911.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and such reserve shall hereafter be known as Pukekohe Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain.

SCHEDULE.

PUKEKOHE DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 3 roods 34 perches, more or less, being Lot 5a of Suburban Section 2, Parish of Pukekohe. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road 100 links wide, 679 links; towards the south-east by Lot 6, Suburban Section 2, Parish of Pukekohe, 583 links; towards the south-west by Lot 5 of the aforesaid suburban section, 684 links; and towards the north-west by a public road 100 links wide, 583 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1392, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

Regulations for the Purpose of preventing or checking the Spread of Infectious Disease.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1911.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section thirteen of the Public Health Act, 1908, that, for the purpose of preventing or checking the spread of infectious disease, the Governor may from time to time, as he thinks fit, make regulations for the purposes and with regard to the matters referred to in the said section, and, amongst other purposes, generally for promoting and enforcing all such cleansing, ventilation, disinfecting, and other measures that are deemed necessary in order to prevent or check the spread of infectious disease:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise 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 regulations set out in the Schedule attached hereto.

SCHEDULE.

(Regulations under the Public Health Act, 1908.)

REGULATIONS.

THE MEASURES TO BE TAKEN TO PREVENT OR CHECK THE SPREAD OF PLAGUE BY MEANS OF RATS.

Taking-effect of Regulations.

(1.) THESE regulations shall come into force within the whole or such specified parts of New Zealand, and at such times, as the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, from time to time directs.

Interpretation.

(2.) In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“Authorized person” means a person authorized by the Minister or by a local authority to do duty in the matter in relation to which the expression is used.

(3.) On the report of the District Health Officer, or any Inspector, or any authorized person that on any premises rats or other vermin exist or are harboured, or that there is evidence of such existence or harbouring, or that there is or has been unusual mortality among rats, the local authority may of its own motion, and shall if the District Health Officer so recommends, by requisition to the owner and occupier of the premises, require them or either of them to effect any or all of the provisions set out below, and in the manner and within the time specified in the requisition; provided that if the District Health Officer is satisfied immediate action is necessary he may take proceedings himself for—

(a.) The destruction of rats by poisoning, or trapping, or such other means as the District Health Officer may direct:

(b.) The removal or obliteration of the nests, burrows, and habitual haunts of rats:

(c.) The making of any house or building on such premises, so far as practicable, proof against the ingress of rats:

(d.) The removal of any inoffensive or offensive refuse, rubbish, material, or article on any such premises which is or affords, or is in the opinion of the District Health Officer likely to afford, a harbourage for rats:

(e.) The protection from access of rats, so far as practicable, of any article which is or is likely to be food for rats.

(4.) The owner and occupier are hereby jointly and severally empowered and required to comply with such requisition.

(5.) In the event of failure to comply with such requisition, the owner and occupier are jointly and severally liable to a fine not exceeding £5 for such failure, and a further fine not exceeding 10s. for every day after the time specified in the requisition during which such failure continues; but in no case shall the fine exceed the sum of £50.

(6.) In the event of any house or building as aforesaid being used for the manufacture or preparation, or storage or collection of any food intended for use for human consumption, the District Health Officer may prohibit the use of such house or building for any such purpose during the time specified in and until such requisition has been complied with.

(7.) If there be evidence that rat-plague exists on any premises the District Health Officer may prohibit the use of any house or building thereon during the time specified in and until such requisition has been complied with.

(8.) The local authority shall forthwith cause a careful inspection by an authorized person or persons to be made within its district, or within such part as is directed by the Minister, in order that the provisions above set forth may be effectively exercised.

H. D. GROCOTT,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending Regulation under the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of May, 1911.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. A. MILLAR PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section fifty-one of the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act, 1908, 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 hereby revoke Regulation 58 of the regulations under that Act dated the tenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eleventh day of the same month, and doth hereby make the following regulation in lieu thereof.