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default of payment, may, in the manner and in the time provided by section 63 of the Harbours Act, 1908, sell the same, and may exercise on behalf of the licensee all the powers contained in the said section 63.

6. No ballast, timber, coal, produce, or cargo of any description shall be shipped or unshipped except at such time and places, and in such order and mode, as may be directed and deemed expedient by the wharfinger for the proper working of the wharf.

7. No person shall deposit any ballast, coal, coke, patent or other fuel on the wharf or in any shed without special permission from the wharfinger.

8. No ashes, rubbish, or refuse shall be landed on the wharf until vehicles are brought alongside to receive them.

9. Three hours’ notice must be given to the wharfinger of the intention to land any rubbish, ashes, or refuse.

10. No goods or articles of any description which, in the opinion of the wharfinger, are likely to occasion damage to the wharf or any shed in connection therewith shall be discharged or landed on the wharf or placed in any such shed.

11. No person shall place or leave upon the wharf, or in any shed in connection therewith, any vegetable or animal matter or goods which are in a state of decay or putrefaction; and any goods which are, in the opinion of the wharfinger, unfit to remain on the wharf, or harmful to other goods stored on the wharf or in any such shed, may be removed from the wharf by the licensee, and the consignee or owner of such goods shall upon demand repay to the licensee the cost of such removal.

12. It shall not be lawful for any person to remove any goods from the wharf until all wharfage entries are passed on the form prescribed by the licensee, and all dues paid in respect of such goods, and a receipt from the wharfinger for all dues payable, or an authority to deliver such goods from the licensee, or any of them, shall have been obtained.

13. All explosives, kerosene, and all goods of a dangerous or inflammable character shall be removed by the owner, agent, or consignee immediately on being landed, and such owner, agent, or consignee failing to do so will be held responsible for any damage or loss that may accrue from any accident arising therefrom, in addition to the penalty provided for breach of these regulations, and the licensee shall not be responsible for any damage or loss which may accrue to such goods.

14. The licensee does not hold himself responsible for the safety of goods deposited in the wharf-shed, or upon any part of the wharves.

15. The master of any vessel loading or discharging at the wharf shall be deemed accountable for the proper slinging and landing of all goods, and responsible for any damage that may occur either from the breakage of slings or from the goods being improperly slung or improperly handled.

16. It shall be the duty of the master to cause proper tarpaulins to be stretched from the wharf to the vessels loading or discharging as aforesaid, and to be there maintained while cargo or ballast is being handled or shipped.

17. In case any vessel does or causes any damage to the wharf or any part thereof, or to any machinery or building thereon or appertaining thereto, then and in any such case the master of such vessel shall forthwith report the occurrence to the wharfinger.

18. Any damage done or caused as aforesaid may be repaired by the licensee, and the cost thereof shall be recoverable by the licensee from the master and owner of any vessel, or either of them, in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

19. All goods landed on the wharf, or brought thereon for shipment, shall be placed as the Harbourmaster, wharfinger, or other authorized person directs, and so as to keep all mooring posts or rings free and all rails or tramways clear.

20. The wharfinger shall have the power to close the wharf, or any portion thereof, whenever, in his opinion, it is advisable to do so, and no person shall enter upon the wharf or portion so closed without the consent of the wharfinger.

21. The master of every vessel lying at the wharf shall give way to any mail-steamer, whether discharging cargo or passengers, and shall either vacate his berth or assist the master of the mail-steamer to moor alongside his vessel, and allow the passengers and cargo to be shipped and unshipped over and across the deck of his vessel, as the case may require, under such conditions as the wharfinger may impose.

22. The master of every vessel, whether carrying passengers or not, when lying alongside the wharf shall fix, and at all times keep fixed, a safe and proper gangway from such vessel to the wharf; such gangway shall have side rails or stanchions with ropes rove taut through same, the top rail or rope being not less than 3 ft. high, and he shall also keep a gangway-net properly secured beneath the gangway, and shall at all times throughout the night (that is to say, from sunset to sunrise) show and exhibit a proper light fixed to each gangway, and shall conform to and obey all orders the wharfinger may give regarding the position, size, and kind of such gangways and lights.

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23. The master, owner, or agent of every vessel shall produce the certificate of registry of his vessel if registered, and shall give to the wharfinger or other person in charge a copy of the bill of lading, freight-list, or manifest of the cargo, or other proper account of all goods intended to be unshipped from the vessel on to the wharf, and also of all goods shipped from the wharf on to the vessel.

24. Such bill of lading, freight-list, manifest, or other account shall contain full particulars of the weights and measurements of such goods according as freight is payable, and the master shall pay to the wharfinger or other person in charge all wharfage charges on such goods according to the scale herein contained.

25. If any person fails or refuses or neglects to do anything by these regulations required to be done, observed, or performed, or in any manner obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the doing of anything enjoined, required, or authorized to be done, or does anything prohibited by these regulations, he shall in each and every case so offending be liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Otekaike Drainage District.—County of Waitaki constituted under the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixth day of August, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the fifty-ninth section of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, a majority of the ratepayers in the area described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Waitaki and Otekaike Settlement, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, praying that the land comprised in the said area be declared to be a district under Part II of the said Act: And whereas the provisions of the Water-supply Act, 1908, cannot conveniently be adopted in the said area:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the said fifty-ninth section of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district under Part II of the said Act for the purpose of the maintenance and construction therein of water-races for the supply of water for irrigation of land, and otherwise for the use and convenience of the public in any manner other than for domestic use; and, with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, His said Excellency doth hereby declare that the said district shall be called by the name of “The Otekaike Drainage District”; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fourth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees of the said district shall consist of five members to be elected under and in accordance with the said Act; and also that this Order shall come into effect on and after the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, being part of the Otekaike Settlement, bounded by a line commencing at the westernmost corner of Section 32A of the said settlement, thence along the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 31A, 28A, 26A, part of the north-eastern boundary of the said Section 26A, along the south-eastern boundary of Section 8A, across a road and railway, and along the south-eastern boundary of Section 2A and its production to the right bank of the Waitaki River, along the right bank of that river and the left bank of the Otekaike River to the railway-line, along the railway-line to the north-western corner of Section 47A, along the western boundary of that section, the north-western boundary of Section 5, Block XII, Maruwenua Survey District, the north-western boundaries of Sections 9, 7, 3, 5, and 6, Block XI, to Run 17D, along the northern boundary of that run and Run 17 to the Otekaike River, across that river, and running westward and north-westward 4500 links, and thence north-easterly 7000 links to the north-eastern boundary of Run 28C, distant 700 links from the easternmost corner of Run 28C; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundaries of Runs 28D and 28C to the westernmost corner of Section 32A, Otekaike Settlement, the place of commencement.

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