Mar. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 907

behalf, 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 amend clauses forty-four and forty-five of the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and gazetted on the thirtieth day of July then instant, by omitting from each clause the words “exceeding 100lb.”; and doth also revoke clause one hundred and fifty-five of the said regulations, and in lieu thereof doth make the following regulation, and doth order that such regulation shall form part of and be read with the above-recited regulations.

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REGULATION.

155. (1.) A LICENSE to carry explosives issued to any carrier of explosives shall be valid only for the person to whom it is issued, or for any one employee in the exclusive service of such person; provided that where more than one person is employed by any carrier in carrying explosives a separate license shall be held by him in respect of each such person.

(2.) No person shall be in charge of any carriage, ship, or boat conveying explosives unless he is the holder of a certificate issued in the form prescribed in the Schedule to this regulation and signed by an Inspector of Explosives or a police constable.

(3.) The license to carry explosives shall specify the nature of carriage, ship, or boat in which the explosives are to be conveyed, and also any special precautions to be observed in such carriage.

(4.) The fee to be charged annually for a license to carry explosives shall be as follows: License to carry explosives, 2s. 6d.

SCHEDULE.

Certificate of Approval.

I hereby certify that the bearer, __, is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, of sober habits, and is in my opinion a suitable person to carry explosives.

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Police Constable [or Inspector of Explosives].

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

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Authorizing the Otago Harbour Board to reclaim Land in Otago Harbour.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-first day of March, 1916.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the one-hundred-and-fifty-eighth section of the Harbours Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that where a Harbour Board is desirous of executing or constructing upon lands vested in such Board or upon lands of the Crown any harbour-works of such a nature that the same could, but for this section, only be carried out and executed under the authority of a special Act, the Board may apply to the Governor in Council for a special order, and, if the Governor in Council thinks fit, such order may be made and granted:

And whereas the Otago Harbour Board (hereinafter called “the Board”) is desirous of reclaiming from the sea certain land in Otago Harbour, and the said harbour-works are of such a nature as aforesaid, and the Board has applied to the Governor in Council for a special order authorizing the execution of the said harbour-works:

And whereas the conditions precedent to the granting of a special order prescribed by the said Act have been duly performed and observed, and it appears expedient that such order should be made:

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:

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 acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize and empower the Board to reclaim from the sea in Otago Harbour all the lands containing sixteen acres and twenty-seven poles, more or less, shown coloured pink on plan marked M.D. 4513, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, and the construction of rubble retaining-wall in connection therewith, such reclamation to be carried out and constructed in accordance with plan marked M.D. 4513, subject to the provisions of the said Act; and the said harbour-works shall be completed within the period of ten years computed from the date of this Order in Council.

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

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Compulsory Registration of Postal Packets

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-first day of March, 1916.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), inter alia, for the compulsory registration of postal packets: And whereas it is desirable to amend such regulations in the manner herein set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulation numbered eighteen under the heading “Registered Articles” in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth declare that the regulation hereby made shall form part of and be read together with the regulations first herein mentioned, and shall take effect on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

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SCHEDULE.

COMPULSORY REGISTRATION.

18. VALUABLE articles sent in unregistered letters are exposed to risk. All inland and Australian letters or packets, therefore, which are supposed to contain watches or jewellery above 10s. in value, or coin or bank-notes, even though they are posted without registration, are treated as “registered,” and charged double the registration fee, in addition to the ordinary postage; and any such letters, &c., which cannot be registered in time to be forwarded by the mail for which they are posted are detained for the next despatch. If on being opened in the presence of an officer of the Post Office the letters are found not to contain such aforementioned articles or any of them, the registration fee and amount of the surcharge are refunded. Coin, bank-notes, bullion, gold, cheques, money-orders, and postal notes (except the three last in bankers’ packets) may not be sent to Australia except in letters, and such letters containing coin, bank-notes, bullion, or gold must be registered.

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

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Consenting to the Raising of a Loan by the Hutt River Board.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-first day of March, 1916.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-six, subsection one, of the Appropriation Act, 1915, it is provided that, notwithstanding any Act to the contrary, it shall not be lawful or competent for any local authority or for any Harbour Board, during the present war with Germany, to borrow or contract to borrow any money (otherwise than by way of bank overdraft within the limit of its powers, if any, in that behalf), whether from the State Advances Office or from any other source whatever, and whether in pursuance of a special Act or under any other authority whatever, without the precedent consent of the Governor in Council:

And whereas application has been made for the consent of the Governor in Council to enable the Hutt River Board to raise an advance of £2,000 by way of temporary loan: