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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 85

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor and Commander-in-Chief 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 November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Greymouth Police-gaol ceases to be a Police-gaol.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Prisons Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, declare that any prison or police-gaol shall no longer be a prison or police-gaol; and upon the gazetting of such Proclamation, or from and after any later date fixed in such Proclamation for the purpose, such prison or police-gaol shall cease to be a prison or police-gaol:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare that, from and after the gazetting of this Proclamation, the police-gaol at Greymouth, in the Provincial District of Westland, shall cease to be a police-gaol.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor and Commander-in-Chief 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 eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amended Regulations under the Coal-mines Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of November, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Coal-mines Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), 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 make the following amendments to the regulations made under the said Act on the fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the sixth day of April then instant; and doth hereby order that the regulations hereby made shall be read as part of the said principal regulations, and shall come into force on the day of the gazetting hereof.

REGULATIONS.

6. THE subjects for examination for first-class certificates shall be as follows:—

No. 1 Subject.—Prospecting, opening out a colliery, working coal, and timbering.

No. 2 Subject.—Mine gases, spontaneous combustion, and ventilation.

No. 3 Subject.—General mining, steam boilers and engines.

No. 4 Subject.—Mine drainage and haulage, also practical electricity.

No. 5 Subject.—(a.) Mine surveying, levelling, and making of plans. (b.) Geology, prospecting for coal, origin and mode of formation of coal-seams, faulting; also a general knowledge of the geology of stratified rocks, and more particularly of New Zealand coal-measures.

No. 6 Subject.—Arithmetic, and a knowledge of the Coal-mines Act and amendments, also first-aid to the injured.

7. The subjects for examination for second-class certificates shall be as follows:—

Subject I.—Prospecting, opening out a colliery, working coal, and timbering.

Subject II.—Mine gases, spontaneous combustion, and ventilation.

Subject III.—General mining, mine drainage, and haulage.

Subject IV.—Elementary electricity, arithmetic, and knowledge of Coal-mines Act, also first-aid to the injured.

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

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Street in the Borough of Napier of a Width less than 66 ft. but not less than 40 ft.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of November, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and seventy-eight of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, provided that, where the configuration of any borough is such as that within any particular area or areas thereof it is difficult or inexpedient to construct streets of a width of sixty-six feet, as required by the said Act, the Governor may, by Order in Council defining the limits of such particular area or areas, authorize the Council to permit within such area or areas the construction of streets or private streets of a width less than sixty-six feet but not less than forty feet:

And whereas the configuration of the Borough of Napier is such that within the area described in the Schedule hereto it is inexpedient to construct streets of a width of sixty-six feet:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 authorize the Napier Borough Council to permit, within the area described in the Schedule hereto, the laying-off of a street within the said area of a width less than sixty-six feet but not less than forty feet.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situated in the Borough of Napier, Hawke’s Bay Land District, being portion of Suburban Section 1 and Town Section 38; as the said land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 31644, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon bordered green.

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

Charge on Goods stored in Shed at Tauranga Town Wharf.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of November, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 93, of the twenty-sixth day of the same month, dues and regulations were prescribed for the Tauranga Town Wharf:

And whereas it is advisable to prescribe a charge to be made on goods stored in any shed connected with the wharf for which a receipt is required by the owner:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe and declare that any person storing goods in any shed connected with the said wharf and requiring a receipt therefor shall pay a receiving charge of one shilling per ton.

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