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the power and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the Manawatu County Council in respect of the said loan of five hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Manawatu County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of five hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Regulations prescribing the Manner of taking the Votes of Producers for the Purpose of the Election of Members of the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board.—Notice No. Ag. 2495.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), 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 revoke the Order in Council made on the seventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and gazetted on the eighth day of November then instant, making regulations prescribing the manner of taking the votes of producers for the purpose of the election of members of the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

ELECTION OF PRODUCERS’ REPRESENTATIVES.

1. IN these regulations “the Board” means the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board :

2. For the purpose of taking the votes of producers the Board shall appoint a Returning Officer, who shall make all necessary arrangements.

3. (1.) For the purpose of the election of producers’ representatives the Returning Officer shall prepare a roll of producers for the North Island and of a roll of producers for the South Island ; and such rolls shall be compiled from information furnished by each secretary or owner of a dairy factory manufacturing dairy-produce for export, and registered with the Department of Agriculture in accordance with the regulations under the Dairy Industry Act, 1908.

(2.) Where two or more persons are carrying on business in partnership as suppliers to a factory each partner shall be entitled to have his name placed on the roll and to exercise a separate vote.

(3.) Where an institution or registered company is supplying milk to a dairy factory the accredited representative of such institution or company shall be entitled to vote at the election, and the name of such accredited representative shall be entered on the roll.

4. The election of members to the Board shall close on the 15th day of June in each year and shall be by a system of postal voting. No voting-paper shall be valid which is not received before noon on that day.

5. No person shall be eligible for election as a producers’ representative unless he has been nominated by two or more producers whose names have been submitted to the Returning Officer by the owner of any such dairy factory, and he has accepted nomination in writing, or by telegraph.

6. Nothing in the foregoing regulations shall prevent the Returning Officer from accepting a nomination-paper in such manner as, in his opinion, is sufficient to identify the candidate and nominators.

7. No producer shall be entitled to nominate more persons for election than the number of producers’ representatives required.

8. The form of nomination shall be in the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto, or to the effect thereof.

9. The last day and hour for receiving nominations shall be the 20th day of May in each year, at noon.

10. If no more persons are so nominated as producers’ representatives than are required to fill the vacant positions on the Board, such persons shall be deemed to have been duly elected.

11. If more persons are so nominated than are required to fill the vacant positions on the Board, the Returning Officer shall cause voting-papers to be printed, in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto.

12. At such ballot no voting-paper shall be valid unless votes are recorded for the full number of persons required to be elected.

13. Where there is an equality of votes between any candidates and the addition of a vote would entitle one of such candidates to be declared elected, the Returning Officer shall give a casting vote.

14. Subject to the foregoing provisions, the candidates required to be elected who have received the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected by the Returning Officer by notice in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE. Form No. 1.

NOMINATION OF PRODUCERS’ REPRESENTATIVE ON NEW ZEALAND DAIRY-PRODUCE CONTROL BOARD.

To the Returning Officer, New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board election, Wellington.

WE, the undersigned persons carrying on business as suppliers of milk or cream to factories manufacturing dairy-produce for export, do hereby nominate A.B. [Full name], of [Residence and occupation], with his consent, as a candidate at the election of members of the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board.

Dated at , this day of , 192 .

[Full names, residence, and occupation of two or more producers.]

I, A.B. [Full name], do hereby consent to the above nomination.

A.B. [Residence and occupation].

(VOTING-PAPER.) Form No. 2.

New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board.

ELECTION OF PRODUCERS’ REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARD, 192 .

MARBLE, ROLAND TOP.

APPLE, JAMES ROSS.

Directions.

In the case of the North Island the voter must vote for the full number of candidates (two) ; he shall leave uncancelled the names of the candidates for whom he desires to vote, and must strike out the names of all the candidates not voted for. Should a voter leave uncancelled the names of more or fewer persons than there are producers to be elected, then his voting-paper shall be invalid.

A voter is only entitled to one vote.

After indicating the vote in manner aforesaid this voting-paper is to be transmitted to the Returning Officer, so as to be delivered at his office on or before noon on the 15th June. An addressed envelope is enclosed for use in transmitting the voting-paper.

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

Declaring a Dam at Clifton, Otago, and Area surrounding such Dam to be a Sanctuary under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Act, and that no imported or native game shall be taken or killed within the said area, except pursuant to an authority granted under section thirty-one or section thirty-two of the said Act ; nor shall any person, except under such conditions as may from time to time be prescribed by the Minister, take any dog or firearm into such area or discharge any firearm or explosive in such area, or do anything likely to cause any imported game or native game to leave such area.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, and in the Otago Acclimatization District, being that portion of Section 25s, Clifton Settlement, on which the dam is situated, and for a radius of half a mile round such dam.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of April, 1925.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.