Mar. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 855

Police-gaol proclaimed.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the Prisons Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare that such police-stations as he shall name therein shall be police-gaols :

And whereas it is desirable to proclaim the police-station situated in Harrison Place, Wanganui, to be a police-gaol :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the gazetting of this Proclamation, the police-station situated in Harrison Place, at Wanganui, shall be a police-gaol.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Police-gaol to cease to be a Police-gaol.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Prisons Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, declare that any prison or police-gaol shall no longer be a prison or police-gaol; and upon the gazetting of such Proclamation, or from and after any later date fixed in such Proclamation for the purpose, such prison or police-gaol shall cease to be a prison or police-gaol :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare that, from and after the gazetting of this Proclamation, the police-gaol at Wanganui, in the Land District of Wellington, shall cease to be a police-gaol.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amending the License authorizing the Te Kuiti Borough Council to erect Electric Lines in the Borough of Te Kuiti.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighteenth day of March, 1918.

Present :

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

WHEREAS it is provided by section two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations prescribing the conditions on which any license may be issued under the said section :

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and published in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, the Te Kuiti Borough Council was licensed to erect electric lines in the Borough of Te Kuiti, subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule thereto (hereinafter called the “said conditions”) :

And whereas application has been made by the Te Kuiti Borough Council that clause five of the said conditions be amended by altering the charge for electrical energy from tenpence per unit for lighting purposes to one shilling per unit, and from fivepence per unit for motor-power, heating, or cooking purposes to sevenpence per unit, and it is expedient to amend such charges accordingly :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, and of every other power in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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 revoke clause five of the said conditions, and substitute therefor the following clause :—

“5. CHARGES FOR ELECTRIC ENERGY.

“The charge for electrical energy shall not exceed one shilling per unit for lighting purposes, and sevenpence per unit for motor-power, heating, or cooking purposes; provided that ‘lighting purposes’ shall include the operation of motor generators for lighting purposes.”

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additions to the Regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of March, 1918.

Present :

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section twenty-seven of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, and all other powers enabling him in this behalf, 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 make the following additions to the regulations under the said Act dated the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen :—

After the word “substance” in regulation 12 (1), Part II, of the said regulations, the following shall be added :—

“When subjected to the reductase test it shall not completely decolorize the methylene blue in less than three hours.

“Method of applying Reductase Test.

“(1A.) A saturated solution is prepared by digesting at the ordinary temperature a few grammes of powdered methylene blue in 20 cubic centimeters of absolute alcohol; 5 cubic centimeters of this solution is diluted with 195 cubic centimeters of distilled water; 1 cubic centimeter of the diluted solution is mixed with 10 cubic centimeters of the milk in a test tube, which is then placed in a water oven kept at a temperature of 45° to 50° C.”

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Order in Council conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of March, 1918.

Present :

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

WHEREAS by section five of the Urewera District Native Reserve Amendment Act, 1909, it is provided that the Native Land Court shall not, without the leave of the Governor-General in Council first obtained, exercise jurisdiction under Part VI of the Native Land Act, 1909 :

And whereas leave to exercise such jurisdiction in respect of the Ruatahuna Block was duly conferred upon the Native Land Court by Order in Council dated the fifteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and gazetted the eighteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen :