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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

Regulations under the Naval Defence Act amended.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of April, 1924.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section twenty-five of the Naval Defence Act, 1913, and section five of the Naval Defence Amendment Act, 1922, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby amend and supplement the regulations referred to in the Schedule hereto as shown therein.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND PAYMENT OF THE NEW ZEALAND DIVISION OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

1. ADD to Appendix II:—

Royal Marines.

Marine, musician, or bugler on enlistment under 17 .. .. 1 9
" " " " over 17 .. .. 2 6
" " " " over 18 .. .. 5 0
" after 1 year, or on completion of drills .. .. .. 7 0
" after 3 years' man's time .. .. .. 7 2
" after 6 years' man's time .. .. .. 7 4
Corporal .. .. .. .. .. .. 8 3
" after 3 years' service as such .. .. .. 8 6
Sergeant .. .. .. .. .. .. 9 0
" after 3 years' service as such.. .. .. 9 4
" after 6 years' service as such.. .. .. 9 8
Colour Sergeant .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 6
" after 3 years' service as such .. .. .. 11 0
" after 6 year's service as such .. .. .. 11 6*

*With subsequent triennial increments of 6d. per diem.

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

Regulations under the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1920, relating to the Destruction of Rabbits in the Moawhango Rabbit District. Notice No. Ag. 2377.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 11th day of April, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1920, 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 make the following regulations relating to the destruction of rabbits in the district under the jurisdiction of the Moawhango Rabbit Board, and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall take effect from the date of the gazetting thereof.

REGULATIONS

1. EVERY owner of land on whom a notice to destroy rabbits is served in terms of section 6 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, shall adopt one or more of the following means of destroying rabbits—namely, the laying of poison of a kind approved of in writing by the Board, the fumigation of burrows, the filling-in of burrows:

Provided that if an owner is of opinion that none of the means prescribed is the most suitable in his case the Board may grant to such owner, upon written application being 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.

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

Waitomo Electric-power Board: First Election.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 11th day of April, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, 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 appoint Thursday, the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, as the day on which shall be held the first election of the representatives of the constituent districts in the Waitomo Electric-power District, being an electric-power district duly constituted by Proclamation dated the third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 14, of the sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

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