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574. A return of all prisoners tried or sentenced at the Supreme Court shall be furnished by the officer in charge at the place of trial for the Police Gazette immediately after the prisoners have been dealt with. The criminal calendar in the custody of the Registrar of the Supreme Court should be referred to in making up this return, so that the very offence of which the prisoner was actually convicted, and not that with which he was charged in the lower Court, may be shown in the return. The entries in charge-books should not be altered, but an explanatory entry should be made in accordance with the Registrar’s calendar.

Witnesses.

575. In all Police cases the member of the Force in charge of the case will be responsible for the due attendance of his witnesses at Court, and shall see that they are ready to be called when wanted. In indictable cases he shall see that the witnesses do not leave the Court until properly bound over to appear at the Supreme Court. He shall keep in touch with the witnesses until after the trial, and shall see that they are in attendance both before the grand and common juries, and that they are in readiness to be called when required, so that no delay will be occasioned. Should he learn that any of the witnesses are about to leave New Zealand before the trial, he shall immediately report the matter, so that steps may be taken either to stop them going away or to see them off (so that their depositions may be read), as the Crown Solicitor may direct. The arresting Constable must in all cases attend the trial, whether bound over or not, unless in cases where he has no important evidence to give, when it is his duty to ask for instructions before the trial, so that the Crown Solicitor can direct whether he is required or not.

576. Where Crown witnesses have no means to defray their train or boat fares they shall be supplied by the Police with tickets, which may be obtained on requisition. The requisitions must in all cases show that the tickets are required for witnesses, whose names must be given therein, also the case in which they are to give evidence. Any member of the Force issuing a requisition shall at once report the same to the officer in charge of his district, who must take steps to collect the amount from the Court or otherwise as circumstances direct.

577. Witnesses shall be paid by the Police in all summary cases according to scale laid down by the Department of Justice for the payment of witnesses’ expenses at the Supreme Court.

578. In the case of prisoners who plead guilty, and are committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, the witnesses shall be paid on the same scale, and the vouchers charged to the Department of Justice.

Wrecks.

579. The Police must promptly report, by telegram if necessary, the finding of any wreckage to the nearest Collector of Customs, and must take steps to secure the same until the arrival of a Customs officer or until instructions are received for its disposal.

580. In case of wrecks where lives are lost the Police must be promptly on the spot, and take steps for the recovery of bodies, their removal to a convenient place for inquest, and for the due security of property.

581. Where a body is not identified a full description must be taken both of the body and everything found on it, and if the body is not too decomposed a photograph should be taken to aid in identification.

582. Where there are any survivors of the wreck, they must be rendered every assistance to reach the nearest town or settlement, and, if necessary, supplied with food and clothing.

583. Information of such wrecks must be promptly telegraphed to the Commissioner, and also particulars of the steps taken in each case.

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

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Pongaroa Domain.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fifteenth day of September, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, with respect to any public domain, appoint such persons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain Board having, subject to Part II of the said Act, control of such domain :

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, a Domain Board was appointed to control the Pongaroa Domain :

And whereas the period for which the said Board was appointed expired on the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen :

And whereas it appears expedient to again appoint a Domain Board to control the said domain :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

JOSEPH HENRY BERRY,
WILLIAM EVAN DAVIES,
LEONARD JOHNSTON,
MAX KAYSER,
JAMES MCDONALD,
JOHN McINTYRE, and
ROBERT WILLIAM MORRIS,

as from the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, to be the Pongaroa Domain Board, having the control of the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the said Act ; and doth hereby appoint Monday, the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, at eight o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Domain Buildings, Pongaroa, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

PONGAROA DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres 0 roods 12 perches, more or less, being Suburban Section No. 12, Town of Pongaroa. Bounded towards the north-east by Makomako Street, 1028·7 links ; towards the south-east by Suburban Section No. 13, a school reserve, 1236·5 links ; towards the south-west generally by River-bank Road ; and towards the north-west by Suburban Section No. 11, an education reserve, and by Section No. 2, Block VI, Town of Pongaroa, 1385·3 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1049, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

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