Oct. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3167

Survey District (at or near ), is duly registered as an orchard in terms of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act and the regulations thereunder.

This certificate shall remain in force until the 30th day of September, 191 .

[Signature.]
[Date.]

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

Regulations under the Orchard-tax Act, 1916, as to the Collection and Expenditure of the Orchard-tax.—Notice No. 1849.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of October, 1916.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Orchard-tax Act, 1916 (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 regulations for the purposes of the said Act; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purposes of these regulations—

“Federation” means the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation (Limited):

“Director” or “Assistant Director” means the Director or the Assistant Director of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce.

2. The moneys paid to the Federation pursuant to the said Act may be utilized for all or any of the following purposes:—

(a.) The establishment and maintenance of the registered office of the Federation.

(b.) The payment of salaries and travelling-expenses of officers in the employ of the Federation.

(c.) The purchase of orchard requisites required by the Federation for testing purposes.

(d.) The investigation, testing, and opening-up of new markets for the export of fruit.

(e.) The organization and improvement of local fruit markets.

(f.) The defraying of expenses in connection with executive meetings of the Federation, and the annual conference of fruitgrowers:

Provided that the general policy of the Federation in relation to the matters referred to in paragraphs (d) and (e) of this clause must receive the written approval of the Minister of Agriculture before any expenditure of moneys paid to the Federation under the said Act is incurred in respect thereto.

3. All books necessary for keeping an account of moneys received and expended by the Federation under the said Act and these regulations shall be kept at the registered office of the Federation, and shall be open at all times for inspection by a duly authorized Government officer. All such books shall be carefully and correctly kept in a form to be approved by the Director, and an audited balance-sheet for the preceding year shall be furnished to the Director not later than the 30th day of April in each year.

4. (a.) In the event of a dispute arising as to the boundaries or area of any orchard for the purpose of the said Act, the Director, or other duly authorized officer acting on his behalf, shall determine such boundaries or area, and his determination shall be final.

(b.) For the purpose of determining the area of any orchard the Director, or such other duly authorized officer, may order a survey to be made at the expense of the occupier.

5. All moneys due under the said Act shall be payable at any money-order post-office in the Dominion.

6. The Director, or in his absence the Assistant Director, shall have the right to be present at any meeting of the Board of Directors of the Federation, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Federation, or other officer acting in that capacity, to give to the Director or Assistant Director reasonable notice of every such meeting.

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

Licensing the Collingwood County Council to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore of Collingwood Harbour as a Site for a Wharf.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this nineteenth day of April, 1915.

Present:

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

WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered to grant the license hereinafter mentioned under the Harbours Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Collingwood County Council (hereinafter called “the Council”) has applied to the Governor in Council for a license under the said Act to occupy a part of the foreshore and land below low-water mark in Collingwood Harbour, in order to erect and maintain a wharf thereon; and, in accordance with the one-hundred-and-fiftieth section of the said Act, has deposited a plan in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington (marked M.D. 4324), showing the area of foreshore and land below low-water mark intended to be occupied, and the manner in which it is proposed to erect the said wharf: And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that the proposed work will not be or tend to the injury of navigation, and the said plans have, prior to the making of this Order in Council, been approved by the Governor in Council: And whereas it is expedient that a license should be granted and issued to the Council under the said Act for the purpose last aforesaid, on the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the object for which the said license is required by the Council as aforesaid; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby license and permit the Council to use and occupy that part of the foreshore and land below low-water mark on which the said wharf is to be erected, as shown on the plan M.D. 4324 so deposited as aforesaid, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining the said wharf; such license to be held and enjoyed by the Council upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. In these conditions the term “Minister” means the Minister of Marine as defined by the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and includes any officer, person, or authority acting by or under the direction of such Minister.

2. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall extend and apply only to the part of the foreshore, and land below low-water mark adjacent thereto, necessary for the erection of the said wharf, as shown on the plan marked M.D. 4324.

3. All persons shall, at all reasonable times, upon payment of the proper dues, have free and full liberty to use the said wharf, and all rights of ingress and egress thereon and therefrom.

4. His Majesty or the Governor, and all officers in the Government service acting in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress into, through, and out of the said wharf without payment.

5. The Council shall maintain the above-mentioned wharf in good order and repair; and shall at all times exhibit from the wharf and maintain at its own cost suitable and necessary lights for the guidance of vessels; provided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved of by the Minister.

6. Any person authorized by the Minister may, at all reasonable times, enter upon the said wharf and view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known address of the Council in New Zealand a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such a wharf, requiring it within a reasonable time, to be therein prescribed, to repair the same, it shall with all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

7. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Council to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of the Minister of Customs, or with any provisions of the Har-