May 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1817

SECOND SCHEDULE.

EVERY person who shall use the wharf for landing goods, or whose goods are stored in any shed on the wharf, shall pay to the Company wharf dues in respect of the landing, storage, receiving, and delivering such goods, as follows, that is to say: For all goods (except such as are hereinafter provided for) landed, stored, received, or delivered, at weight or measurement, according to shipping usage.

At per week or part of a week.

For passengers’ luggage under ½ ton, provided such luggage is removed from wharf within one hour of being landed, free from landing dues.

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

Portions of Courtenay and Watson Streets, in the Borough of New Plymouth, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of May, 1915.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in any case where the local authority having control of any road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor in Council:

And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is provided that such approval may be either absolute or subject to such conditions with respect to the building-line as the Governor, by Order in Council, thinks fit to impose:

And whereas the New Plymouth Borough Council, being the local authority having control of the portions of streets described in the Schedule hereto, did, by resolution, declare that the provisions of the said section one hundred and seventeen should not apply to the said portions of streets:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution in so far as it affects the said portions of streets described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Courtenay Street, in the Taranaki Land District, Borough of New Plymouth, adjoining Subdivisions 5 of Sections 2058 and 2059, and 6 of 2058, Town of New Plymouth.

Also all that portion of Watson Street, in the said land district and borough, adjoining Subdivisions 5 of Sections 2058 and 2059, 4 of Sections 2058, 2059, 2040, and 2041, and 3 of Section 2041, Town of New Plymouth.

As the said portions of streets are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37663, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Regulations with respect to the Wharf at Waitangi, Chatham Islands.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day of May, 1915.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section two hundred and seven of the Harbours Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that a Harbour Board shall have power, by by-laws made under the said Act, to do all or any of the things in the said section mentioned within the limits of the harbour, including, amongst other things, power to regulate the use of wharves and other landing-places, and generally regulate the traffic on the same, fix scales of dues, tolls, and charges to be paid for the use of wharves, and fix scales of dues for the storage of goods, and otherwise as mentioned in the said section:

And whereas it is enacted by section nine of the said Act that in harbours where there is no Harbour Board the Governor in Council shall have all the powers, functions, duties, and authorities by the said Act conferred upon Harbour Boards, and may exercise the same in accordance with the said Act under regulations to be made in the manner provided in section two hundred and seven:

And whereas there is no Harbour Board in Waitangi Harbour, Chatham Islands, and it is desirable to make the following regulations with respect to the said harbour, and to the wharf in Waitangi Harbour, which is under the control of the trustees of the said wharf:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations with respect to the said harbour and to the wharf which is under the control of the trustees of the said wharf (hereinafter called “the trustees”).

REGULATIONS.

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

“Wharfinger” shall mean the person appointed by the trustees to the charge of the wharf and shed, and shall include any person acting by or under the authority of the wharfinger.

“Goods, cargo” shall mean and include all merchandise, wares, and commodities of every description.

“Kerosene” shall include paraffin, petroleum, naphtha, benzene, turpentine, and other like goods.

“Ship, vessel” shall include launch or boat of any description carrying cargo or passengers.

“Wharf” shall mean and include any wharf, breastwork, jetty, landing-place, or the approaches thereto, under the control of the trustees, and shall include any store, shed, or other building built on or attached to such wharf and under the control of the trustees.

“Wool” shall include all skins, wool, fungus, and other goods packed in wool-bales or other like packages.

2. The master or agent of every vessel shall give to the wharfinger or other person deputed by the trustees one or more copies, as may be required, of the bills of lading or manifest of the cargo, or other proper account of all cargo intended to be landed from the vessel, and the name or names of the consignees to whom such goods are intended to be delivered. Such bills of lading, manifests, or other accounts shall contain full particulars of the weights and measurements of such cargo, according as freight is payable thereon.

3. Every master of a vessel shall be responsible for the proper slinging of all goods discharged on or laden from the wharf, and for any damage that may occur, either from the breakage of slings or from the goods being imperfectly slung.

4. The trustees will not be responsible for any claim arising from delay in the delivery of goods from any cause whatsoever.

5. Cargo landed or placed on the wharf during the absence of the wharfinger or his deputy shall not be deemed to be in the custody of the trustees, nor shall they be responsible for any loss or damage that may accrue to such cargo from any cause whatsoever.

6. No person shall remove any goods from the wharf or shed, or place any goods thereon, without having either paid the dues thereon or arranged to the satisfaction of the wharfinger for payment thereof.