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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this 5th day of May, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land taken for the Purposes of the Development of the Lake Coleridge Water-power Scheme in Block VII, Fighting Hill Survey District (Point Substation).

[L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the development of the Lake Coleridge water-power scheme (Point substation); and I do also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken: 2 acres 3 roods 38 perches.

Portion of Reserve 1779, Block VII, Fighting Hill Survey District (Canterbury R.D.). (S.O. 278v.)

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 51444, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of May, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Revoking a Proclamation taking Additional Land in Block XI, Tangihua Survey District, for the North Auckland Railway (Branch Line to Whangarei).

[L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Proclamation dated the fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 29, of the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, taking additional land in Block XI, Tangihua Survey District, for the North Auckland Railway (branch line to Whangarei), the land referred to in such Proclamation being incorrectly described.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of May, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Additional Regulations respecting the Formation, Establishment, and Operation of Medical Clubs under the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and its Amendments.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of May, 1921.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of all powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and its amendments (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act and its amendments”), 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 additional regulations to the regulations made under the said Act and its amendments on the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen; and doth hereby declare that the addition to the regulations hereby made shall be read as part of the said principal regulations, and shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

COAL-MINERS’ MEDICAL FUND.

1. The miners’ association for a district may form a Medical Club for the district by passing a resolution to that effect at a special meeting called for the purpose. Notice in writing of the formation of the club shall be at once given by the Secretary of the association to the coal-mine owners within such district. Upon the formation of such club the Coal-miners’ Medical Fund for the district shall be deemed to be established.

2. In addition to giving such notice in writing the Secretary of the miners’ association shall notify the coal-mine owners of the name of the said club and the name and address of the Secretary of the club, also the names of the persons appointed by the club to act as trustees to operate on the moneys paid into the Medical Fund (hereinafter referred to as “the said fund”).

3. Every person employed in, upon, or about a coal-mine, the owner of which has been notified of the formation of the said club, shall be deemed to be members of such Medical Club. Employees under the age of eighteen shall be considered as half members, and shall contribute half the rate paid by adult members. Members shall be entitled to benefit as soon as their first payments have been made.

4. Every Medical Club shall be registered under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

5. The amount to be paid per week to the said fund by each member of the Medical Club of any district shall be from time to time fixed in the rules of the club, and the Secretary shall from time to time notify the owner of every coal-mine in the district of the sum per week which is to be collected and deducted from the wages payable by him to every person employed in, upon, or about his coal-mine.

6. When any member of a Medical Club is unable to follow his employment on account of sickness, he shall be paid such sum per week and for such period as may be provided in the rules of the club.

7. No money shall be withdrawn from the said fund until the Medical Club of the district has appointed at least two persons as trustees of the said fund, and has given to the Chief Postmaster of the district and to the Minister of Mines written notice of such appointment, and of the acceptance of such trusteeship by the person so appointed.

8. When any change takes place in the office of trustee, either by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, similar notices shall at once be given by the said club.

9. Whenever any sum of money is withdrawn by the trustees from the said fund, the trustees shall give to the Inspector of Mines residing nearest to the post-office savings-bank where the said fund is kept full particulars of the sum or sums so withdrawn.

10. (1.) For each six-monthly period ending 31st March and 30th September in each year returns shall be furnished by the trustees to the Minister of Mines, showing the several amounts paid into the said fund, and the particulars of all withdrawals and disbursements therefrom during such quarter, together with such information as the Minister of Mines may require.

(2.) Every such return shall be so forwarded within ten days after the expiration of the quarterly period to which it relates, and shall, if required by the Minister of Mines, be verified by the statutory declaration of the trustees.

11. The trustees shall keep proper books of account, showing the various items of receipts and expenditure in relation to the said fund; and such books shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of any Inspector of the Mines Department or other officer duly authorized by the Minister in that behalf, who may take such extracts therefrom as he may require.

12. Every coal-mine owner in the district shall file all notifications by the Medical Club of the sum per week payable by each member employed by him, and all receipts of payment to the said fund; these, together with the books of account relating to deductions from members’ wages and payments of same to the said fund, and the books of the post-office savings-bank account of the said fund, shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of any Inspector of the Mines Department or other officer duly au-