the ceiling, and, if so directed by the Engineer, their extractive
powers shall be maintained by suitable fans.
4. The occupier of a hall shall, prior to each performance,
or at least once in every four hours during a continuous
performance, thoroughly flush with fresh air every part of
the premises open to the public, and for this purpose all
windows and doors shall so far as weather-conditions will
permit be opened to the full extent thereof.
5. The owner of a hall shall provide that all windows shall
open to an extent equal to at least half the total area thereof.
6. The occupier of a hall shall keep every part of the
premises open to the public clean and free from dust, and shall
spray or wash down the same at least twice in each week
with a weak solution of disinfectant. When possible a vacuum
cleaner or a dustless process of sweeping shall be used.
7. The owner of a hall shall provide a minimum of
4½ square feet of floor-space area as seating-space per occupant, exclusive of aisles and passage-ways, and that the
distance between adjacent seats shall be not less than 18in.
from centre to centre : Provided that wherever the seating
arrangements of any existing hall have been approved by the
local authority prior to the coming into force of these regulations, this clause shall not apply so long as the seating
arrangements remain in the condition approved by the local
authority.
8. The owner of a hall shall properly ventilate such hall
to the satisfaction of the Engineer.
9. The owner of a hall shall provide sufficient sanitary
accommodation for both sexes to the satisfaction of the
Engineer.
10. The occupier of any hall intended for use by the public
shall provide and maintain in a conspicuous position in the
hall a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb thermometer, if so required
by the Medical Officer of Health.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Land other than
Alienation in favour of the Crown.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of
June, 1923.
Present :
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase
Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the
power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit,
for the period of one year from the date of this Order in
Council, all alienation of the Native land specified in the
Schedule hereto other than alienation in favour of the Crown.
SCHEDULE.
TATARA-A-KINA Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12
Blocks, Tarawera and Waitara Survey Districts.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Vesting the Control of a Travelling-stock Reserve in the Wairoa
County Council.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of
June, 1923.
Present :
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
has been duly set apart as a resting-place for
travelling stock; And whereas it is expedient that the
control of the said reserve should be vested in the Wairoa
County Council :
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,
and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon
him by section two of the Public Reserves and Domains
Amendment Act, 1914, doth hereby vest the control of the
said reserve in the Wairoa County Council.
SCHEDULE.
GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.
Lot 1 of Section 5, Block VI, Taramarama Survey District:
Area, 2 acres.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
The Samoa Customs Amendment Order (No. 2), 1923.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of June, 1923.
Present :
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority
to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of the
Territory of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the Samoa Act,
1921, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that
behalf, doth hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Samoa Customs Amendment
   Order (No. 2), 1923, and shall be read with and form part of the Samoa
   Customs Order, 1920.
2. This Order shall come into force on the thirty-first day of July,
   nineteen hundred and twenty-three.
3. The Opium Act, 1908, shall, in its application to Samoa by
   virtue of the provisions of clause three of the Samoa Customs Amendment Order (No. 2), 1921, be read as if the words “two hundred
   pounds” were substituted for the words “fifty pounds” where the
   last-mentioned words occur in subsection four of section three and
   in subsection two of section five of the said Act.
   F. D. THOMSON,
   Clerk of the Executive Council.