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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

REGULATIONS.

1. SAMBUR or Ceylon deer (stags or bucks only) may be taken or killed within the said district from the 1st day of May, 1914, to the 30th day of June, 1914, both days inclusive.

2. Licenses to kill such deer may be issued by the Chief Postmaster at Wellington, and the Postmasters at Palmers-ton North, Bull’s, Foxton, and Marton, on payment of a license fee of 20s., in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Acts and these regulations.

3. No licensee shall be allowed to take or kill more than three stags or bucks; and, further, the said Chief Postmaster and Postmasters shall not issue more than one license to take or kill deer to the same person.

4. No hind or fawn will be allowed to be killed on any pretext whatever; and no dogs will be allowed to accompany either the licensee or any attendant he may have with him.

5. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

SCHEDULE.

No.
License to take or kill Game (Ceylon Deer).
, of , having this day paid the sum of £ , is hereby authorized to take or kill Sambur or Ceylon deer (stags or bucks only) within the Counties of Manawatu, Oroua, and Kairanga, from the 1st day of May, 1914, to the 30th day of June, 1914 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions of the Animals Protection Act, 1913, and the amendments thereof, and the regulations made thereunder.

Dated this day of , 19 .

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

Regulations under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth day of March, 1914.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. ALLEN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, the Native Reserves Act, 1882, the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892, the Foreign Insurance Companies’ Deposits Act, 1908, the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act, 1908, the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, and of all other powers authorizing him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the consent and advice of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following regulations, to take effect on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen; and hereby declares that on that day the regulations now in force, to wit, those made respectively on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and on the twenty-second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven (gazetted respectively on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eleven), shall be deemed to be revoked.

REGULATIONS.

1. IN these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“ The principal Act ” means the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 :

“ Property ” shall be deemed to be placed in the Public Trust Office when the Public Trustee is authorized as trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, committee, agent, attorney, custodian trustee, or otherwise to administer or deal with such property :

“ Minister ” means the Minister in Charge of the Public Trust Office :

“ Native Board ” means the Board established pursuant to the Native Reserves Act, 1882 :

“ The Office Board ” means the Public Trust Office Board established under the principal Act :

“ Institution ” includes an association, society, corporation, bank, savings-bank, and any Department of the General Government of the Dominion :

“ Common fund ” means the common fund mentioned in section 32 of the principal Act :

“ Estate ” means all the property which the Public Trustee, as trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, committee, agent, attorney, or otherwise, is entitled to administer or deal with, and includes estates where the Public Trustee is custodian trustee.

THE OFFICE.

2. The head office of the Public Trust Office shall be situate in the City of Wellington.

3. Except when otherwise directed by competent authority, the Public Trust Office shall be open to the public on business days from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., except on Saturdays, when it shall close at noon.

4. The Public Trustee and every member of the staff of the Public Trust Office (including Agents of the Public Trustee) shall make a declaration of secrecy in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto.

5. (1.) The Office Board and also the Native Board shall meet for the despatch of business at such times and places as are from time to time appointed by the Public Trustee, or by adjournment of a previous meeting.

(2.) To meet cases of urgency the consent in writing of a majority of the members of the Office Board or the Native Board to any proposal submitted by the Public Trustee shall have the same effect as a resolution of the Board concerned, and in every case the proposal so consented to shall be formally confirmed at the first available meeting of that Board.

(3.) Minutes of the proceedings or resolutions of the Office Board and also of the Native Board shall be recorded in such manner as the respective Board directs, and shall either at the meeting when the business is done or at the next succeeding meeting be confirmed by that Board, with such alterations or variations as that Board thinks proper, and, when confirmed, shall be signed by the Chairman or presiding member at such meeting.

(4.) All minutes and proceedings of the Native Board shall, when required by any member thereof, be interpreted by some competent interpreter to the Native members of that Board present at such meeting.

6. (1.) The seal of the Public Trustee and of each local Deputy Public Trustee, as existing immediately prior to the coming into force of these regulations, shall be the seal thereunder; provided that the Public Trustee may, with the consent of the Office Board, from time to time alter the form of such seal.

(2.) The Public Trustee’s seal shall be kept at the head office, in the custody of the Public Trustee, under lock.

(3.) The seal of each local Deputy shall be kept in that Deputy’s office in his custody, under lock.

7. (1.) The Public Trustee may fix the scale of charges to be paid to solicitors in respect of the preparation, perusal, and completion of securities to or instruments for the Public Trustee, and for the discharge, renewal, or variance of such securities, and generally for the transaction of legal business for the Public Trustee.

(2.) Such scale, with such modifications as with the approval of the Minister the Public Trustee directs, shall apply where the work is done by the office solicitor, and in that case the money received shall be paid into the Public Trustee’s Account:

Provided that no charge shall be made for obtaining administration or passing stamp accounts where the office solicitor acts.

8. Wherever in connection with any estate the Public Trustee is entitled to any charges he may deduct the same from any funds in his hands or under his control belonging to the estate, and where the funds in the estate have been distributed he may recover any such charges from the person receiving such funds.

9. Where through a mistake any overpayment has been made, the Public Trustee may recover the same from the person so overpaid.

10. (1.) The Public Trustee shall from time to time, at such convenient intervals as he thinks proper, but not exceeding twelve calendar months at any one time, render accounts showing the position and state of every estate in the Public Trust Office to every person who is entitled thereto or interested therein; and all such accounts shall be so rendered free of charge.

(2.) If any person entitled to accounts requires extra copies of such accounts, or a copy thereof at any other time than the fixed period for rendering the same, he shall pay the charge prescribed in respect thereof.

(3.) The Public Trustee shall determine who is entitled to accounts, and, subject to appeal to the Office Board, may refuse accounts to any person who in his opinion is not entitled to them.

11. The Public Trustee shall keep a Complaint Book, in which shall be entered all matters of complaint that come to his knowledge.