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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 dis-
trict, 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 per-
mit 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 Com-
mittee 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.

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 ser-
vice 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 Maniapoto 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 Maniapoto District for one
year from the date hereof.

Given under the seal of the Maori Council for the Mania-
poto 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 Mania-
poto 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 Maniapoto Maori District held at Otorohanga

on the 10th day of February, 1922, and are given under the
seal of the said Council.

(L.S.) MOERUA NATANAHIRA, Chairman.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 3rd day of March, 1922.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Native Affairs.

Shooting Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fee, &c., Otago Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, William Downie
Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game
and native game—viz., mallard duck, Californian quail, grey
duck, spoonbill duck (or widgeon), and black swan—may be
taken or killed within the Otago Acclimatization District, com-
prising all that area in the Otago and Southland Districts
comprising the Counties of Vincent, Maniototo, Waihemo,
Waikouaiti, Taieri, Peninsula, Tuapeka, Bruce, Clutha, and
part of the County of Southland, bounded on the east and
south by the ocean from Shag Point to the mouth of the
Mataura River, on the west by the Mataura River and the
County of Lake, on the north-west by the County of West-
land, and on the north-east by the County of Waitaki;
including the City of Dunedin and the boroughs within the
above-described area; (except in the areas mentioned in the
Schedule hereto) from the first day of May, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-two, to the fifteenth day of July,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two (both days in-
clusive). And I do further notify that licenses to take or
kill such imported game and native game within the said
district will be issued to any person on payment of the sum
of twenty shillings each; and the Chief Postmaster at Dun-
edin, and the Postmasters at Alexandra, Balclutha, Beaumont,
Clinton, Clyde, Cromwell, Dunback, Fortrose, Green Island,
Henley, Hyde, Hawea Flat, Heriot, Kaitangata, Kelso,
Lawrence, Lovell's Flat, Matakanui, Middlemarch, Miller's
Flat, Mosgiel, Milton, Naseby, Omakau, Outram, Owaka,
Port Chalmers, Portobello, Pukerau, Palmerston, Roxburgh,
Ranfurly, Romahapa, St. Bathan's, Stirling, Tapanui, Wai-
hola, Waikouaiti, Wyndham, Waipahi, Waipiata, Waipori,
and Waitahuna, are hereby authorized to sign and issue
the said licenses.

And I do further notify that licenses to kill grey duck,
spoonbill duck (or widgeon), and black swan within the said
district will be issued to any person by the said Chief Post-
master and Postmasters on payment of the sum of ten
shillings each.

And I do hereby restrict the number of such imported game
and native game that may be taken or killed by any one
person in any one day to not more than twelve mallard duck,
twenty Californian quail, and twenty-five head in all of grey
duck, spoonbill duck (widgeon), and black swan.

Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and
native game shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill
imported game and native game on lands actually and ex-
clusively used by any registered acclimatization society for
acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public
domain, or any land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ADDITIONAL AREAS WHEREIN IMPORTED GAME MAY NOT BE
TAKEN OR KILLED.

1. The Lagoon known as the Tomahawk Lagoon (Otago
   Peninsula).

2. All that area in the Otago Land District being Section 9,
   Block 22, Strath-Taieri Survey District.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 19th day of April,
1922.

R. HEATON RHODES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

[NOTE.—The above warrant is published in substitution
for the one published on page 1015 of New Zealand Gazette
No. 26, of 6th April, 1922.]

Officiating Ministers for 1922.—Notice No. 11.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1922.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908,
the following name of an Officiating Minister within
the meaning of the said Act is published for general infor-
mation :—

Church of Christ.
Mr. Hugh Urquhart Rodger.

J. L. PALETHORPE,
Acting Registrar-General.