Mar. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 731

Warrant authorizing the New Brighton Borough Council to construct a Bridge over the Avon River at Seaview Road, New Brighton (together with Approaches thereto), and apportioning the Cost.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by section one hundred and nineteen of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize the New Brighton Borough Council to construct the bridge (together with approaches thereto) described in the Schedule hereto; and I do also declare that the cost thereof shall be borne by the New Brighton Borough Council, the Christchurch City Council, and the Heathcote County Council in the following proportions, viz.: The New Brighton Borough Council shall pay seventy-five and one-half per centum, the Christchurch City Council shall pay seventeen and one-half per centum, and the Heathcote County Council shall pay seven per centum of such cost respectively; and I do further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Christchurch City Council and the Heathcote County Council shall be paid from time to time in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said City and County Councils, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the New Brighton Borough Council; and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Town Clerk, New Brighton, for and on behalf of the said City and County Councils.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge in the Canterbury Land District over the Avon River at Seaview Road, New Brighton, situated on the boundary between the Heathcote County and the Borough of New Brighton (together with approaches thereto). As the site of the said bridge and approaches is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 60886, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington in the Wellington Land District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 19th day of March, 1926.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 45/465.)

Regulations under the Census and Statistics Act, 1910.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by Proclamation under section four of the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, made on the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at page 1833, it was proclaimed that a census under the said Act should be taken in the month of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, on Wednesday, the twenty-first day of the said month:

And whereas the matters, particulars as to which are to be entered on the form of the Householder’s Schedule prepared pursuant to section six of the said Act for the purpose of taking such census, are declared by the First Schedule to the said Act to include any other prescribed matters:

And whereas by section thirty-five of the said Act it is enacted that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing all matters and things which by the said Act are required to be prescribed:

And whereas it is expedient to prescribe the matters hereinafter referred to, particulars as to which are to be entered on the said form:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me as aforesaid, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing certain additional matters, particulars as to which shall be entered upon the Householder’s Schedule under section six of the said Act, and do hereby declare that these regulations shall come into operation on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

REGULATIONS.

1. IN addition to the matters specified in the First Schedule of the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, and regulations made under the said Act and gazetted on the 27th day of January, 1921, the Statistician shall cause to be entered upon the Householder’s Census Schedules, which shall consist of the Householder’s Dwelling Schedule, the Householder’s Family Schedule, and the Personal Schedule, questions in relation to the following matters:—

(a.) The number of working-days lost during the twelve months immediately preceding the census through sickness, accident, or injury, or through lack of employment not due to strikes or lock-outs.

(b.) The numbers, sexes, and ages of members of the family of the householder or occupier, being related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the said householder or occupier, and being ordinarily resident in the dwelling but absent at the census; and the numbers and sexes of persons, not being members of the family of the householder or occupier ordinarily resident in the dwelling but absent at the census.

(c.) The amount of income per annum, according to certain categories, of all persons of sixteen years of age or over.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of March, 1926.

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

Directing that the Provisions of the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, shall apply to Natives.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections thirty-three and thirty-five of the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the matters specified in the First Schedule of the said Act, and in the regulations now or hereafter made and gazetted thereunder, shall in connection with the census to be taken in the month of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, on Wednesday, the twenty-first day of the said month, and for the night of Tuesday, the twentieth day of the said month, and at all times relative to the taking of such census, relate throughout the Dominion of New Zealand as well to persons who are Natives as to persons who are not Natives within the meaning of the said Act, and that the acts and matters required to be done by occupiers and other persons under the said Act in connection with the said census shall be done by Natives in the same manner and to the same extent as by persons who are not Natives within the meaning of the said Act:

Provided that, in any districts where such a course is deemed necessary by the Government Statistician, Natives may be excused from furnishing certain of the information generally required from occupiers and other persons, and to that end forms may be used in which certain of the matters specified in the First Schedule of the said Act, and the said regulations now or hereafter made and gazetted thereunder, are not included.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of March, 1926.

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

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department.
Wellington, 20th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

Henare Matanuku

of Kahukura, to act as a Native Interpreter of the first grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Members of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 16th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Hamana Mahuika and
William Allison

to be members of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Horouta, vice Paratene Ngata, deceased, and Wi Waititi, resigned.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.