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and if discovered playing therein the licensee or the person for the time in charge of the premises shall be liable to a fine of £5 for the first offence, and for a second offence the Council may revoke the license.

(7.) Renewal of license must be applied for before the expiry of the term for which a license has been granted.

(8.) Any Maori youth under the age of fifteen years found playing billiards in any place whatsoever shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 5s. for the first offence, not exceeding 10s. for the second offence, and not exceeding £1 for the third offence or for every subsequent offence.

(9.) Any person keeping a billiard-room or a billiard-table in any Maori kainga, and any Maori keeping such a room or table at any other place within the district, except townships (but not Maori lots within a Native township) and European settlements, without license from the Council, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £25.

(10.) Any person found playing for money, whether by cards or any other game (except by billiards on licensed premises), within the precincts of any kainga shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 10s. for the first offence, not exceeding £1 for the second offence, and not exceeding £2 for every subsequent offence.

(11.) Any person, the owner or occupier of any house or premises situate in any Maori kainga, who shall permit or allow gambling or playing for money (except by billiards on licensed premises) in such house or upon such premises shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £1 for the first offence, not exceeding £2 for the second offence, and not exceeding £5 for every subsequent offence.

(N.) VILLAGE COMMITTEES.

67. The Council may delegate wholly or in part its powers under the prescribed rules or regulations to any Village Committee, and such Committee shall thereupon be enabled to exercise such powers within its own kainga.

The Village Committee shall have power to impose a penalty or a fine for any breach of regulation, and if such fine be not paid within the prescribed period the Chairman of the Committee shall forward a report on and evidence of such breach of regulation and of the non-payment of such fine to the Chairman of the Council.

68. The Council shall prescribe fines for by-laws for which no provision has been made.

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SCHEDULE.

Form A.

To [Name and address].

GREETING: You are requested to cleanse or cause your house to be cleansed within days after service of this notice upon you, and you are warned that if after such service you refuse or neglect within the time specified to comply with this notice you will be liable to a fine not exceeding £1.

Dated the day of , 19 .

(SEAL.) Chairman [or Clerk] of Taranaki Council
[or Village Committee].

Form B.

HAWKER’S LICENSE.

Know all men that , a hawker, is duly licensed to sell goods in the kaingas of the Taranaki District for one year from the date hereof.

Given under the seal of the Maori Council for the Taranaki Maori District, the day of , 19 .

(SEAL.) Chairman [or Clerk] of the Council.

Form C.

BILLIARD LICENSE.

Know all men that , of , is duly licensed to keep a billiard-room at for twelve months from the date hereof, subject to the provisions of the by-laws of the Council.

Given under the seal of the Maori Council for the Taranaki Maori District, the day of , 19 .

(SEAL.) Chairman [or Clerk] of the Council.

The above by-laws were passed at a meeting of the Maori Council for the Taranaki Maori District held at Patea on the 21st day of September, 1921, and are given under the seal of the said Council.

(L.S.) TUPITO MARUERA, Chairman.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of October, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Native Affairs.

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Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 11th April, 1922.

IN pursuance of the 10th section of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license

ISIDOR MELTZER,

of Auckland, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

J. G. COATES, Minister in Charge.

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Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 11th April, 1922.

IN pursuance of the 10th section of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license

FREDERIC ORMOND AUSTIN,

of Lower Hutt, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

J. G. COATES, Minister in Charge.

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Abolition of a Special Roading District.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power conferred on me by subsection (6) of section 50 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, I do hereby declare that the Pokatea-Kokakanui Special Roading District, as constituted by a notice published in the Gazette of the 4th day of November, 1915, is hereby abolished as from and including the 1st day of July, 1922.

As witness my hand this 8th day of April, 1922.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

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Resignation of Member of Hawke’s Bay Land Board accepted.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in terms of section 44 of the Land Act, 1908, accepted the resignation of

GEORGE WRIGHT

as a member of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, as from the 16th May, 1922.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

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Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Hokianga County Council.—Notice No. 2164.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 11th April, 1922.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Hokianga County Council has, by special order, declared gorse (Ulex europæus) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

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Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th April, 1922.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge receipt of the sum of six pounds ten shillings, forwarded to the Railway Department, Christchurch, as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

J. J. ESSON, Secretary to the Treasury.