REGULATIONS.

78A. If an Accounting Officer is requested to make a payment
or accept a charge or credit which, in his opinion, is not
authorized by regulations or is otherwise incorrect, he must
state his objections in writing to the head of his Department,
who will forthwith report the circumstances to the Paymaster-
General.

78B. If any officer of the Public Service finds that expendi-
ture is being incurred which, in his opinion, might be reduced
or checked by a change in administrative methods, or that
owing to the wording of a contract or informal agreement, or
for any other reason, unnecessary expenditure is taking place,
even though such expenditure may be technically correct
and in order, he must draw the attention of the head of his
Department to the matter, who shall immediately report the
circumstances, with his suggestions thereon, to the Pay-
master-General.

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

Amending Regulations as to Licenses for the Taking of Toheroa
at Ahipara, on the West Coast of the North Island.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day
of March, 1923.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fourteenth
day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 50, of the
twentieth day of the same month, regulations were made
imposing conditions and restrictions on the taking of Toheroa
in the areas therein specified:
And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said regulations
and to make others in lieu thereof:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the power and authority conferred upon him by section
five of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of all other powers and
authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the hereinbefore-recited
regulations, and doth hereby make the following regulations
in lieu thereof.

REGULATIONS.

1. No person, firm, or company shall take toheroa for the
   purpose of canning or otherwise preserving the same, without
   a license in writing under the hand of the Minister, and
   subject to these regulations.

2. When either of the areas mentioned in the Second
   Schedule hereto becomes available for leasing the Minister
   may, by advertisement in a newspaper or newspapers cir-
   culating in the Mangonui County, invite tenders for the
   lease of such area, upon and subject to such terms and
   conditions as he may prescribe.

3. The licensee shall have the exclusive right to take
   toheroa for canning purposes from the area included in his
   license: provided, however, that any persons who desire
   to take them for their own consumption only shall be allowed
   to do so without charge.

4. The license shall remain in force for a period of ten
   years from the date thereof, unless in the meantime such
   license is cancelled as hereinafter provided; and the licensee
   shall not assign, charge, or part with his interest in the license
   without the written consent of the Minister first obtained.

5. On the expiration of the period for which the license is
   issued, if the licensee has in all respects complied with the
   conditions of his license and of these regulations, he shall
   be granted the right of renewal of the license for a further
   period of ten years, subject to such terms and conditions
   as the Minister may think fit to impose.

6. The licensee shall pay, on or before the dates fixed in
   the license for such payments, all sums due in respect of
   the license.

7. The licensee shall erect and maintain a properly equipped
   factory for canning toheroa from the area in respect of which
   his license is issued, and the factory shall be completed and
   in full working-order within one year from the date of issue
   of the license.

8. The working of any area in respect of which a license
   is issued shall be under the control of an Inspector of Fisheries,
   who shall have power to regulate the quantity of toheroa
   that may be taken, in order to prevent the beds being depleted
   or injuriously affected.

9. In case the licensee shall--
   (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of these regulations, or
   any of them; or
   (2.) Take toheroa from any area other than that in respect
   of which his license is issued without the previous
   consent of the Minister; or
   (3.) Work the beds in such a way that they become depleted
   or injuriously affected,--
   then and in any of the said cases the Minister may cancel
   the said license on giving one month's notice in writing to
   the licensee; and upon such cancellation the licensee shall
   forthwith remove all buildings and structures from the area
   in respect of which the license was issued.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Area No. 1.--Commencing at a point three miles north of
Ahipara, and extending generally northwards for a distance
of approximately twenty-seven miles.

Area No. 2.--Commencing at the northern boundary of
Area No. 1, and extending generally northwards for a distance
of approximately twenty-seven miles to Scotts Point.

As the said areas are respectively delineated on plan
marked M.D. 5174, and deposited in the office of the Marine
Department at Wellington, the boundaries of the said area
being marked by white-painted posts bearing the words
"Toheroa Area No. ," with the figure for the number of
the area after the word "No."

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day
of March, 1923.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS application has been made, under section
twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919,
for the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council
to enable the several local authorities mentioned in the
Schedule hereto to borrow the sums set out therein, and it is
expedient that such consent should issue:
Now, therefore, 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 consent to the raising of the loans hereinafter
mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the
Schedule hereto, and it is hereby declared that this Order in
Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the
Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent
of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said
loans.

SCHEDULE.

TAMAKI West Road Board (for drainage) .. . . 90,000
" (for improving various roads) 32,000
" (for electric reticulation) .. 12,000
Piako County Council (for repaying Council's ante-
cedent liability) .. . . .. .. . 9,000
Otorohanga County Council (for reforming, culverting,
and metalling roads in the Otorohanga Maihiihi
S.R.A.) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Otaki Borough Council (for waterworks) .. . . 12,000
Dannevirke County Council (for rebuilding bridge on
Mangahei Road) . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Inglewood County Council (for completing metalling
the Autawa and Pita Roads) .. . . . . . 250

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day
of March, 1923.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS application has been made, under section
twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919, for
the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council to