2796
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 65

Regulations under the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925, amended. (H. 2/47.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of September, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, 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 in amendment of the regulations made under the said Act on the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-third day of the same month, at page 3441.

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REGULATIONS.

CLAUSE (1) of Regulation 14 of the said regulations is hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor:—

“(1.) The course of training for midwives shall be—

“(a.) In the case of a person who is registered as a nurse and also as a maternity nurse, a period of not less than four months:

“Provided that a registered nurse who after completing the minimum period of training prescribed for maternity nurses continues with the training prescribed for midwives pending her examination as a maternity nurse, shall, if successful in the examination, be allowed to count the period between the completion of her training as a maternity nurse and the date of the examination as part of the course of four months’ training prescribed above.

“(b.) In the case of a maternity nurse registered after examination under paragraph (a) of section thirteen of the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925, a period of not less than four months following a period of practice as a registered maternity nurse of not less than twelve months during which time she has assisted at not less than twelve cases of labour.

“(c.) In the case of a maternity nurse registered under paragraph (b) of section thirteen of the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925, a period of not less than four months and following a period of practice as a registered maternity nurse of not less than twelve months, during which time she has assisted at not less than twelve cases of labour:

“Provided that the Board may exempt any such person either wholly or in part from the foregoing requirement as to twelve months’ practice if satisfied that she has been engaged outside New Zealand, and after qualification, in practice of a similar nature.

“(1A.) A maternity nurse registered under paragraph (c) of section thirteen of the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925, shall not be entitled to sit for examination as a midwife unless she first passes the prescribed examination for maternity nurses and undergoes the prescribed period of training. It shall not be necessary for any person desiring to sit for examination as a maternity nurse under this sub-clause to undergo first any course of training.

“(1B.) In every case referred to in clause (1) hereof the period of training as a midwife shall not be deemed to have been completed unless and until the trainee has, during the period of her training, conducted not less than twenty cases of labour.”

Clause (6) of Regulation 26 is hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor:—

“(6.) The fees payable under the said Act shall be as follows:—

“(a.) Indoor patients, £3; such fee to cover confinement and up to fourteen days after treatment. Antenatal indoor treatment and waiting patients at the rate of 3s. per diem. A deposit of not less than £1 shall be payable by each patient.

“(b.) Out-patients, £1, plus a reasonable amount for travelling-expenses of the nurse; such fee to cover delivery of the patient and daily visits for subsequent ten days.

“(c.) Babies (remaining in hospital after discharge or death of mother), 10s. per week.”

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

Amending Regulations under the Masseurs Registration Act, 1920. (H. 2/48.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of September, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Masseurs Registration Act, 1920 (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 amend the regulations made under the said Act on the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at page 3433, in manner set out in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby order that such amendment shall take effect on and from the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

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SCHEDULE.

THE Third Schedule to the said regulations is hereby amended by inserting, under the heading “Current from the Main,” and after the words “The pantostat, multostat, and allied machines,” the following words:—

“Apparatus for ultra-violet treatment.

“Apparatus for diathermy treatment.”

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

Trustees for the Te Puia Public Cemetery appointed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section four of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a certain Warrant dated the eleventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, appointing trustees for the Te Puia Public Cemetery, and in lieu thereof do hereby appoint

Charles Henry McCracken,
James Edward Clews,
Andrew Kirke Gilmour, and
Albert Tuckwell

to be trustees to have the maintenance and care of the Te Puia Public Cemetery as described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

TE PUJA PUBLIC CEMETERY.

ALL that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 0 roods 32 perches, being Lot 3 of Section 136, Suburbs of Te Puia.

Also all that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 8 perches, being Lot 1 of Section 69 of the Suburbs of Te Puia.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/184, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered blue and coloured purple respectively. (Gisborne plan 3294.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of September, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

George Leach,

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

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.