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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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22. No member, under any pretence whatsoever, is permitted to leave the location of a fire without the instructions or permission of the officer in charge at the fire.

23. Members shall not be allowed to take any intoxicating liquors, or to smoke, while on duty at a fire or practice or other duties, without permission from the officer in charge.

24. Any member guilty of negligence or misconduct, whether on duty or not, or found in such a state as to unfit him to perform the duties required, may, at the discretion of the Superintendent or senior officer in charge of the station, be suspended until the following meeting of the Board. When action is taken under this clause, a report of such suspension shall be immediately sent to the Chairman of the Board.

25. In all cases of suspension the circumstances connected therewith shall be reported to the Board, who will deal with the matter at the next meeting, when the offending member may, if he so wishes, appeal against the suspension.

26. No member shall be entitled to any pay during the period he may remain under suspension from duty, unless the Board, on investigation of the circumstances, acquits him from all blame in the matter.

27. Unless otherwise provided, one week’s written notice given on either side shall terminate the agreement for service of members.

28. The Superintendent shall have sole discretion as to the number of men to whom leave may be granted at any time.

29. No member of the brigade shall under any circumstances write any letters or furnish any information to the Press on matters connected with the Board or brigade, save that, in the event of a superior officer not being present, the senior on duty may give particulars regarding any fire which has been attended.

30. One drill every week for alternate teams will be held, when every member shall attend, or give a satisfactory reason for his absence.

31. All members of the brigade under twenty-one years of age shall be off the station before 10 p.m., excepting when on special duty.

The foregoing by-laws were made by the Kaiapoi Fire Board on the 31st day of October, 1922, and were sealed with the seal of the Board on the 31st day of October, 1922.

T. R. LEITHEAD, Chairman.
LLEW. B. EVANS, Member.
L. L. WILSON, Secretary.

The foregoing by-laws of the Kaiapoi Fire Board are approved this 16th day of December, 1922.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Application of Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920 (Imperial), to New Zealand.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th December, 1922.

THE following extract from the London Gazette of the 20th June, 1922, relating to the application of the provisions of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920 (Imperial), to the Dominion of New Zealand is published for general information.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of June, 1922.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920, provision has been made for the enforcement in England and Ireland of maintenance orders made by a Court in any part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom to which the said Act extends:

And whereas by the said Act it is amongst other things provided that where His Majesty is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the Legislature of any part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom for the enforcement within that part of maintenance orders made by Courts within England and Ireland, His Majesty may by Order in Council extend the said Act to that part, and thereupon that part shall become a part of His Majesty’s Dominions to which the said Act extends:

And whereas His Majesty is satisfied that the Legislature of the part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom hereinafter mentioned has made reciprocal provisions for the enforcement within that part of maintenance orders made by Courts within England and Ireland:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers of the above-recited Act in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920, shall apply to the part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom hereunder mentioned:—

The Dominion of New Zealand.

And the Right Honourable Winston Spencer Churchill, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the 9th day of January, 1923, at 2.30 p.m., as the time, and the Municipal Chambers, Waipukurau, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of December, 1922.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1922.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—

WILLIAM THOMAS COAD, Chief Postmaster, Hamilton.
FRANCIS WILLIAM CRAIG, Chief Postmaster, Blenheim.
HUGH PATERSON DONALD, Chief Postmaster, Timaru.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Telegraphs.

Prohibiting the Importation into Australia from New Zealand of Plants and Parts of Plants (including Fruit) and certain Seeds.—Notice No. 2234.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 18th December, 1922.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that advice has been received from the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia that owing to the existence of pear-blight or fire-blight (Bacillus amylovorus) in New Zealand, the importation into Australia from the Dominion of all plants and parts of plants (including fruit) is prohibited; provided that agricultural seeds, grass-seeds, vegetable-seeds, flower-seeds, and the seeds of pine-trees and of ornamental shrubs or trees may be imported, subject to the exception of the seeds of any plant of the family Rosaceæ and the seeds of any fruit-tree.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Trustees of the Rangitoto Rabbit District elected.—Notice No. 2235.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 18th December, 1922.

NOTICE has been received, under the hand of the Returning Officer of the Rangitoto Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, that

AMON, ALEXANDER WINKS,
DALRYMPLE, KENNETH WARING,
GRAY, ROBERT JULIAN KIRK,
RICHARDS, LOFTUS MANUEL,
SIMPSON, WILLIAM JOHN,
TROTTER, RICHARD HENRY, and
WILSON, HORACE,

have been duly elected trustees of the said district.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.