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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.

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.

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

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of a Public Trust Office in the Borough of Napier.

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 by the Public Works Act, 1908, it is, in section fifteen thereof, inter alia, enacted that, except for the purpose of a railway or defence purposes, or for the purposes of any other work to be made under the authority of a special Act, nothing in this Act contained shall authorize the taking of any land occupied by any building, yard, garden, orchard, or vine-yard, or in bona fide occupation as an ornamental park or pleasure-ground, without the previous consent of the Governor-General in Council:

And whereas part of the land described in the Schedule hereto is occupied by a building, and the Minister of Public Works has recommended the Governor-General to issue an Order in Council under the said Act consenting to the taking of the said land for the purposes of a Public Trust Office:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers 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 consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land being taken: 18 perches. Being part Section 163, Town of Napier, situated in the Borough of Napier (Hawke’s Bay R.D.).

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 43777, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged pink.

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

Prohibiting the Exportation of Bags, Bagging, Sacks, Sacking, and Piecegoods of Jute, Hessian, or Linen.

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 by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, as extended by section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, prohibit the exportation of any goods the prohibition of the exportation of which is in his opinion necessary in the public interest:

And whereas in the opinion of the Governor-General it is necessary in the public interest that the exportation of bags, bagging, sacks, sacking, and piecegoods of jute, hessian, or linen should be prohibited to the extent and in the manner hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, and section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, 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 that Dominion, doth hereby prohibit the exportation of bags, bagging, sacks, sacking, and piecegoods of jute, hessian, or linen from the said Dominion save with the consent of the Minister of Customs.

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

Prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienations in favour of the Crown.

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.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit, for the period of one year from the date of this Order in Council, all alienations of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

WHAREKAHIKA 18M Block: Approximate area, 93 acres 0 roods 14 perches; Matakaoa Survey District.

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

Prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienations in favour of the Crown.

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.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit,