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Minister of Telegraphs, to take possession of or to cause the said apparatus or any part thereof to be taken possession of in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, and to be used for His Majesty’s service and subject thereto for such ordinary services as to the said officer or person may seem fit; and in that event any person authorized by the said officer or person may enter upon any ship on which such apparatus is installed and take possession of the said apparatus and use the same as aforesaid.

7. Any such officer or person may in such event as aforesaid, instead of taking possession of the said apparatus as aforesaid, direct and authorize such persons as he may think fit to assume the control of the transmission of messages by the said apparatus, either wholly or partly, and in such manner as he may direct, and such persons may enter upon any ship on which the said apparatus is installed accordingly; or the said officer or person may direct the person or persons in charge of the said apparatus to submit to him, or any person authorized by him, all messages tendered for transmission or arriving by the said apparatus, or any class or classes of such messages, to stop or delay the transmission of any messages, or deliver the same to him or his agent, and generally to obey all such directions with reference to the transmission of messages as the said officer or person may prescribe, and the said person or persons in charge of the said apparatus shall obey and conform to all such directions.

8. If any breach of these regulations is committed by any person on board any ship while in the territorial waters of New Zealand, the person so committing the same and the owner and master of the ship shall be severally liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100.

9. Whenever the Minister of Telegraphs or the Secretary of the Post Office has reasonable cause to believe or suspect that any breach of these regulations has been committed on board any ship while in the territorial waters of New Zealand, he may give notice in writing to the Collector of Customs at any port in New Zealand to detain the ship, under section 9 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1913, until the sum of £100, or such smaller sum as may be specified in the notice, has been deposited with the Collector by or on behalf of the owner of the ship.

10. If on the receipt of that notice, or at any time within three months thereafter, the ship is found within such port, the Collector of Customs shall withhold the certificate of clearance of the ship, under section 35 of the Customs Act, 1913, until and unless the aforesaid sum is deposited with him or the aforesaid notice of detention is withdrawn.

11. If within six months after the date of the offence in respect of which the ship has been detained a conviction for that offence is obtained against any person, the sum so deposited shall be available for the satisfaction of any fine and costs imposed or awarded by the conviction, and the residue, if any, shall be returned to the person by whom the deposit was made.

12. If within the period of six months aforesaid no such conviction is obtained, the sum so deposited shall be returned to the person by whom it was deposited.

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

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this thirteenth day of July, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, 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 Otago 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 Warrington Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain.

SCHEDULE

WARRINGTON DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 71 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Sec-
tion 67A, Block I, Waikouaiti Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the abutment of a road-line, by Lot 1 of Section 50, Block I aforesaid, and again by the abutment of a road-line, 1400 links; towards the east, south-east, and south generally by the ocean and the estuary of the Waitati River known as Blueskin Bay, 8500 links; and towards the west generally by the said Blueskin Bay, 8300 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1913/258, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Stratford County Council.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this thirteenth day of July, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been permanently reserved as a site for a surfaceman’s cottage: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Stratford County.

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Chairman Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Stratford County, in trust, as a site for a surfaceman’s cottage.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods 14 perches, more or less, being Sections 4, 6, and 16, Block III, Town of Huiroa. Bounded towards the north-west by the Makuri Road, 160 links; towards the north-east, again towards the north-west, and towards the south-west by Section 5, Block III aforesaid, 312·5, 160, and 312·5 links respectively; again towards the north-west by the Makuri Road, 160 links; again towards the north-east and north-west by Section 7, Block III aforesaid, 312·5 and 73·1 links respectively; towards the east by Tocker Street, 195·2 links; towards the south by Section 15, Block III aforesaid, 504·5 links; and again towards the south-west by Sections 9 and 3, Block III aforesaid, 39·4 and 312·5 links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1913/1593, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with Kiwitea County Council’s Loan of £1,000.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this thirteenth day of July, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Kiwitea County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of one thousand pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of erecting a hall at Kimbolton:

And whereas the first publication of the notice setting forth the day on which the poll of ratepayers in connection with such loan was to be taken was not made not less than fourteen days before the said day, as required by section ten of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers in the said county have not been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to validate the said proceedings:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and eleven of the