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made to it in that behalf, and subject to such conditions as it may deem desirable to impose, permission to hunt with dogs and shoot or to use other means, and the decision of the Board shall be final as to the means to be adopted.

2. Not later than seven days after the service of such notice on an owner of land all trapping on his land shall cease, and thereafter for a period of three months from the date of service of the notice the owner shall not, except with the written permission of the Board and subject to the conditions specified therein, trap rabbits or allow rabbits to be trapped on his land.

3. Every person committing a breach of these regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £10.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

Revoking Order in Council licensing the Komiti Fruit Lands Development Company (Limited) to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore of Komiti Bay, Kaipara Harbour, as a Site for a Wharf.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of December, 1923

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, G.C.M.G., K.C.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 34, of the twenty-second day of the same month, the Komiti Fruit Lands Development Company (Limited), (hereinafter called “the company”), was licensed to use and occupy a portion of the foreshore of Komiti Bay, Kaipara Harbour, as a site for a wharf, as shown on plan marked M.D. 4734, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington :

And whereas the company has been wound up, and it is desirable to revoke the license :

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 the Harbours 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 Order in Council dated the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revocation of Order in 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 Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of December, 1923.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, G.C.M.G., K.C.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that any Order in Council made under that section may at any time be varied or revoked :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council referred to in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ORDER in Council under section 363 of the Native Land Act, 1909, dated the 17th day of September, 1923, and published in the New Zealand Gazette the 20th day of September, 1923, affecting Whakairoro 5c 2b Section 1, Pirongia Survey District.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

B

Suspending Provisions of Certain Acts in the Case of the British and Intercolonial Exhibition, 1923.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of December, 1923.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, G.C.M.G., K.C.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the holding of an exhibition at Hokitika, under the name of the British and Intercolonial Exhibition, 1923, was authorized, and the said Exhibition was declared to be an Exhibition within the meaning of the Exhibitions Act, 1910 : And whereas it is expedient to suspend the provisions of certain Acts in the case of the said Exhibition as hereinafter appears :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section nine of the Exhibitions Act, 1910, 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, in the case of the said Exhibition and in the case of any factory, shop, or office, carrying on business solely at and for the purpose of the said Exhibition, hereby suspend or modify (as the case may be) the following provisions of the following respective Acts subject to the conditions mentioned in this Order, that is to say :—

THE SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT, 1921–22.

Section three is hereby suspended.

Paragraph (d) of subsection one of section seven is hereby suspended, provided that a weekly half-holiday is given to each shop-assistant on some working-day of the week.

Section fourteen is hereby suspended.

Section thirty-one is hereby suspended.

Section thirty-two is hereby suspended.

Section thirty-three is hereby suspended.

Section forty is hereby suspended.

Section forty-six is hereby suspended, provided that a weekly half-holiday is given to each office-assistant on some working-day of the week.

Subsection one of section forty-nine is hereby suspended, provided that no office-assistant shall be employed for a greater number of hours in any week than that usually worked by such office-assistant prior to the said Exhibition.

THE FACTORIES ACT, 1921–22.

Sections nine to fifteen are hereby suspended.

Paragraphs (e) and (f) of section eighteen are hereby suspended.

Paragraph (b) of section thirty-five is hereby suspended, provided that a weekly half-holiday is given on some working-day in the week to every boy under eighteen years of age and every woman employed in a factory.

THE INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION ACT, 1908.

The above-mentioned Act shall not be deemed to authorize the making of industrial agreements or awards fixing the hours of employment, except with respect to the weekly or daily number of such hours. All industrial agreements or awards now in force under the said Act are hereby suspended so far as they fix the hours of employment, except in respect to the weekly or daily number of such hours, and where a weekly half-holiday is provided for by any such agreement or award the said holiday may be given to any assistant on any working-day in the week.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Stratford County Council declared a Leasing Authority under the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of December, 1923.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, G.C.M.G., K.C.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Stratford County Council is a body of persons having power to lease lands held in trust, reserved, or set apart for public purposes, and has requested