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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 113

Immigration into the Cook Islands.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section fifty-three of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, the Governor in Council is empowered to make all such regulations as he thinks necessary for the peace, order, and good government of the Cook Islands:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the said Act and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, make the following regulations under that Act; and, with the like advice and consent, I declare that these regulations shall come into operation on the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Cook Islands Immigration Regulations, 1916.

2. The following persons are prohibited immigrants within the meaning of these regulations:—

(a.) Any person suffering from a venereal disease or from tuberculosis or leprosy:

(b.) Any person who at any time within five years of his arrival in the Cook Islands has been convicted in any place of any criminal offence punishable in the place where it was committed by imprisonment for more than one year:

(c.) Any person of unsound mind:

(d.) Any Chinaman, except one to whom a permit to land in the Cook Islands has been issued by a Collector of Customs under these regulations, and who lands in pursuance of that permit.

3. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, no person shall be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant who at the time of his arrival in the Cook Islands is already lawfully resident in those islands.

4. It shall not be lawful for any prohibited immigrant to land in any island forming part of the Cook Islands; and any person who lands in any such island in breach of these regulations shall be liable to imprisonment for three months, or to a fine of £50; or both to such imprisonment and to such fine.

5. No permit shall be issued by a Collector of Customs to any Chinaman to land in the Cook Islands until and unless—

(a.) The Collector is satisfied that the Chinaman is able to read a printed passage of not less than one hundred words in the English language to be selected by the Collector; and

(b.) The Chinaman has paid to the Cook Islands Treasury the sum of one hundred pounds.

6. Nothing in the foregoing regulations shall be so construed as to confer upon any person any right to obtain a permit by fulfilling the conditions set forth in those regulations, and the refusal of a permit shall in all cases be in the absolute discretion of the Collector of Customs.

7. In these regulations the term “Chinaman” means any person, whether male or female, belonging to the Chinese race, and includes a half-caste Chinaman and any person intermediate in blood between a half-caste and a person of pure descent from the Chinese race.

8. The provisions of these regulations as to Chinamen shall have no application to any accredited officer of the Chinese Government.

9. Notwithstanding anything in these regulations, it shall not be unlawful for the master or any member of the crew of any ship to land in the Cook Islands; but if any such person being a prohibited immigrant remains in any island forming part of the Cook Islands at any time after the departure from that island of the ship from which he has so landed, he shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable to the same punishment as if he had unlawfully landed in that island.

10. The master of a ship shall have full authority to prevent any prohibited immigrant from landing in the Cook Islands from that ship, and for that purpose may detain any such person upon the ship.

11. If the master of a ship permits a prohibited immigrant unlawfully to land in the Cook Islands, or is in any way knowingly concerned in the breach or attempted breach of these regulations by any person, or in any conspiracy to commit any such breach, the master shall be liable to a fine of £50, and, if such offence is wilfully committed by him, to imprisonment for three months either in lieu of or in addition to such fine.

12. (1.) “Vagrant” means any person having insufficient lawful and visible means of support, and not being a Native.

(2.) Every vagrant found in the Cook Islands shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable to imprisonment for three months.

13. When a prohibited immigrant or other person has, within twelve months after his arrival or last arrival in the Cook Islands, been convicted of an offence against these regulations, a Judge or Commissioner of the High Court, or a Resident Commissioner or Resident Agent, may at any time hereafter (whether the person so convicted is in custody or not, and whether he has completed the term of any imprisonment imposed upon him or not) order him to be placed on board the ship by which he was brought to the Cook Islands, or on board any other ship belonging to or chartered by the same owner or charterer, and he may thereupon be arrested by any officer of police and placed on board that ship accordingly.

14. If within twelve months after the arrival or last arrival of any person in the Cook Islands he is committed to medical custody under Part XXI of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, as being of unsound mind, and a warrant is issued accordingly for his removal from the Cook Islands to New Zealand, the Resident Commissioner may order him to be placed on board the ship by which he was brought to the Cook Islands or on board any other ship belonging to or chartered by the same owner or charterer, to the intent that he may be taken to New Zealand in that ship.

15. If the master of any ship refuses to receive any person ordered to be placed on board that ship in pursuance of these regulations, or if he permits any such person to leave the ship and land in any part of the Cook Islands, the master shall be liable to a fine of £50, or, if the offence is wilfully committed, to imprisonment for three months either in addition to or in lieu of such fine.

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

Removing Protection from Deer in the Nelson District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that deer shall as from the date hereof cease to come within the operation of the said Act within that part of the Nelson Acclimatization District described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Rabbit Island, Rough Island, Best’s Island, and Bell’s Island, situated at the head of Tasman Bay.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Declaring a Road-line through Land in the Seaforth Settlement, Canterbury Land District, to be closed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the road described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused, and that the said road intersects land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and is not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of section eighty of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the road hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

SEAFOORTH SETTLEMENT.

Approximate area of the piece of road closed: 4 acres 2 roods 12 perches.

Being parts of Sections 3904, 4014, and 12168, Block IX, Arowhenua Survey District.