New Zealand Gazette – 1925 – No. 23

Page 974

✨ Regulations for District Councils in Samoa



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(c.) The exercising of the executive powers which are conferred on District Councils by these regulations or which the Administrator shall from time to time, in his discretion, confer upon them.

  1. The District Council for any district may make by-laws for all or any of the following purposes in relations to such district and the Samoan residents therein :-

(1.) The good rule and government of villages :

(2.) Cleaning of villages :

(3.) The laying-out and remodelling of new or existing villages in accordance with principles approved by the Administrator :

(4.) The conserving of public health and the abatement of nuisances :

(5.) Regulating the use and prohibiting the contamination of water-supplies :

(6.) Regulating the laying-out and construction of new roads :

(7.) The maintenance and cleaning of roads :

(8.) The enlarging of plantations :

(9.) The cleaning and cultivation of existing and new plantations :

(10.) Controlling the use of approved cemeteries, and regulating burial therein :

(11.) Controlling the keeping of pigs :

(12.) Prohibiting the drinking of fermented or spirituous liquor :

(13.) Enforcing the observance of instructions issued by or by the authority of the Chief Medical Officer :

(14.) Enforcing and regulating the registration of births and deaths :

(15.) Controlling the care and investment in manner approved by the Administrator of trust money subscribed for building churches and other public purposes :

(16.) Prescribing the duties of residents in such district in regard to assistance to be given to Native medical officers and Native nurses :

(17.) Regulating the purchase, care, and maintenance of fautasis :

(18.) Prescribing the duties of Samoans resident in such district in regard to services to be rendered for the public benefit in the making of roads, building and repairing of churches and houses, planting of trees and food-supplies, accommodation and maintenance of visitors, accommodation and transport of Government officials on duty, and such other matters as are by custom of the Samoans commonly the subject of communal effort :

(19.) Prescribing the duties of Samoans resident in such district in regard to services to be rendered to chiefs by their people in the building of fales, planting of food-supplies, building of canoes and fautasis, making of mats and tapa, and such other services as are by the custom of the Samoans commonly rendered to chiefs by their people :

(20.) Regulating and enforcing the attendance of children at school :

(21.) Regulating and enforcing the fencing of plantations :

(22.) Providing for the care and feeding of animals and the prevention of cruelty to animals :

(23.) Providing for the holding of Agricultural shows-

(a.) For such district ; and

(b.) For the villages therein, and regulating such shows :

(24.) Providing for the carrying-out of appropriate ceremonies approved by Administrator on King's Birthday, Samoan Flag Day, and O le Aso Fa'amanatu :

(25.) Providing for the holding of annual sports for the Fetu O Samoa :

(26.) Providing for the adoption of methods approved by the Administrator for increasing the output of copra :



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🪶 The Native Regulations (Samoa) Order, 1925 (continued from previous page)

🪶 Māori Affairs
30 March 1925
Regulations, Samoa, Native self-government, District Councils, By-laws, Public health, Roads, Plantations, Education, Agriculture