Aug. 21.]

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland 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 Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 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 fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

W. FRASER,

Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Stopping a Government Road in Block VI, Whakatane Survey District.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by paragraph (c) of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation publicly notified, stop or alter the course of any Government road or any part thereof:

And whereas the Government road described in the Schedule hereto is no longer required for the purpose of a road:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anyway enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim as stopped the road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Land District of Auckland; as the same is 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 Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 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 fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

W. FRASER,

Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amending Regulations under the Fisheries Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of August, 1913.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 41, of the thirty-first day of the same month, regulations were made providing, inter alia, for the registration and licensing of sea fishing-boats:

And whereas it is desirable to amend the said regulations in the manner hereinafter described :

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 Fisheries 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 clauses 62, 63, and 66 of the hereinbefore recited regulations, and doth hereby make the following regulations in lieu thereof.

REGULATIONS.

62. The registered owner of each boat shall paint, or cause to be painted, the name of such boat and that of the port or place of registry, in white oil colour on a black ground, or in black on a white ground, outside the stern of the boat, in letters which shall be not less than 3 in. in height and (\frac{1}{2}) in. in breadth.

63. Within seven days after registration of any boat the registered owner thereof shall in the following manner mark, or cause to be marked, such boat with the letter or letters and the number to be assigned to her in her register:-

(a.) The letters shall precede the number.

(b.) The letters and numbers shall be placed on each bow of the boat 3 in. or 4 in. below the gunwale, so as to be clearly visible.

(c.) In the case of steamers the letters and number shall, in addition, be placed in a similar manner on each quarter, and on the funnel 12in. from the top, of a conspicuous size, and as far as possible on the foremost half of the circumference.

(d.) The letters and number shall be painted in white oil colour on a black hull, and in black oil colour on a white hull.

Provided that in the cases where the hulls are painted an intermediate shade a black or white ground shall be provided for the letters and numbers, and the letters and numbers shall be of the opposite colour to the ground.

66. The names, letters, and numbers herein prescribed shall at all times be effectively kept up and renewed by the registered owner when required, and a boat shall not have, either on its outside or on its sails, any letter or number other than those herein prescribed : Provided that in the case of any boat only temporarily engaged in fishing for purposes of sale, so much of these regulations as requires that letters and numbers shall be permanently affixed to the hull and sails or funnel shall not apply if such letters and numbers are temporarily affixed thereto during the whole period of fishing by means of board, canvas, or iron in a manner otherwise according to these regulations.

J. F. ANDREWS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Chief Judge of Cook Islands Land Titles Court.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of August, 1913.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Cook Islands Government Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority enabling him in that 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 appoint

Lieut.-Colonel WALTER EDWARD GUDGEON, C.M.G., to be a Judge of the Cook Islands Land Titles Court, and also to be Chief Judge thereof: And, in further pursuance of the like power and authority, and with the like advice and consent, His Excellency the Governor doth hereby order and declare that the said appointment shall be of effect and shall be held for a period of three months from the twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

J. F. ANDREWS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.