June 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1913

Regulations as to Leases for the Toheroa-bearing Areas in the South Island.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1916.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is provided by the fifth section of the Fisheries Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations which shall have force and effect either throughout New Zealand or only in such waters or places as are specified in the regulations for, inter alia, imposing conditions and restrictions on the taking of fish:

And whereas it is desirable to make regulations imposing conditions and restrictions on the taking of the shell-fish known as toheroa, in the South Island:

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 section five of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations imposing conditions and restrictions on the taking of toheroa from places in the South Island of New Zealand; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATIONS.

1. No person, firm, or company shall take toheroa, for the purpose of canning the same or for marketing fresh, without a lease in writing under the hand of the Minister of Marine (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”), and subject to the regulations hereinafter specified.

2. Persons wishing to obtain a lease of any toheroa bed shall make application in writing to the Collector at the nearest port, giving a clear description of the locality, and the extent and boundaries of the area for which the application is made.

3. On receipt of an application for a toheroa lease by the Collector, a notification that such an application has been received shall be advertised in a newspaper circulating in the district, and if no other application is received, the Minister may, on the report of the said Collector, grant such lease.

4. Should there be more than one application for the same area, a ballot shall be taken and the lease shall be granted to the successful applicant: Provided that preference shall be given to an applicant who may be deemed to have been the first to discover, or bring under the notice of the Department, the existence of toheroa beds of commercial value in any locality; and the Minister may, if he thinks fit, grant a lease to such applicant without advertising or ballot.

5. No person, firm, or company shall be granted a lease for more than one area.

6. The lessee shall have the exclusive right to take toheroa for canning purposes, or for marketing fresh, from the area included in his lease.

7. If within one year from the date of the lease the lessee has failed to make reasonable use of the toheroa on his lease either by canning or by placing them on the market fresh, the Minister may, on the report of an Inspector of Fisheries, cancel such lease.

8. The Minister may, as considered necessary, set apart areas in any district from which toheroa may be taken by the public for private use, and also areas for the exclusive use of the Maoris for their food.

9. The lease shall remain in force for a period of ten years from the date thereof, unless in the meantime such lease is cancelled as hereinafter provided, and the lessee shall not dispose of, assign, or change his interest in the lease without the written consent of the Minister first obtained.

10. The lessee shall pay in respect of the lease held by him an annual rental of £5 in advance, dating from the date of the lease.

11. The working of the area in respect of which the lease is granted shall be under the control of an Inspector of Fisheries, who shall have power to regulate the quantity of toheroa that may be taken, in order to prevent the beds or area being depleted or injuriously affected.

12. In case the lessee shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of these regulations or any of them;
    (2.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 10 of these regulations;
    (3.) Take toheroa from any area other than that in respect of which his lease is issued, without the previous consent of the Minister; or
    (4.) Work the beds in such a way that they become depleted or injuriously affected,—
    then and in any of the said cases the Minister may cancel the said lease on giving written notice to the lessee; and upon such cancellation the lessee shall forthwith remove all buildings and structures from the area in respect of which the lease was issued.

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

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Amendment to Regulations under the Nurses Registration Act.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers and authority conferred upon me by section eleven of the Nurses Registration Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations in respect of hospitals acting as training schools for nurses.

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REGULATIONS.

In addition to the conditions under which a general hospital shall be eligible for recognition as a training school for nurses, as set forth in the regulations made on the 12th day of May, 1913, the following conditions must be fulfilled:—
(1.) Additional to clause 1 of regulations, “and shall be approved by the Registrar of Nurses.”
(2.) Before being accepted by the training school for the full course, pupil nurses shall serve a term of probation of at least three months, and at the end of that period shall be recommended as suitable for training by the matron.
(3.) The proposed termination of the training of a pupil nurse during the prescribed period shall, with the cause thereof, be notified to the Registrar of Nurses, whose consent to such termination shall be required.

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

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Public Health.

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Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Christchurch and Rolleston Survey Districts, Canterbury Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more of the purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in Part II of the Schedule hereto from that named in Part I of the said Schedule to that named in Part III of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Description and Purpose of Original Reserve.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 912 acres, more or less, and being Re-