Feb. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 425

Amendment of Regulations to prevent the Contamination of Food during Manufacture and Sale. (H. 125a.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1926.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Health Act, 1920, and of all other powers enabling him in this 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 amend in the following manner the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-fourth day of the same month, at page 1710:—

1. Regulation 11 of the said regulations is hereby amended by adding to subclause (2) thereof the following paragraph:—
   “11. (2A.) Every person engaged in the handling of meat shall take measures to prevent such meat from coming into direct contact with his head and neck, and no person engaged in the handling of meat shall permit such meat to come into direct contact with his head or neck.”

2. The following clause is added to the said regulations:—
   “PENALTY CLAUSE.
   “16. Any person by whose act, default, or sufferance any of these regulations is contravened is liable on conviction to a penalty of not more than twenty pounds, and for a continuing offence to a penalty of two pounds for every day during which the offence shall continue.”

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

Opening Settlement Lands in Marlborough Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Thursday, the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Awatere County.—Cape Campbell Survey District.—Town of Ward.—Flaxbourne Settlement.

These sections are all flat, suitable for residential sites, situated within the township and handy to railway-station, post-office, school, and saleyards.

Awatere County.—Clifford Bay Survey District.—Town of Seddon.—Starborough Settlement.

These sections are practically all flat, suitable for residential sites, handy to railway-station, post-office, school, and saleyards.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of February, 1926.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

Frank Hollis Stretton,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Makaretu, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand, this 10th day of February, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Mangapu Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th February, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Richard Ormsby, Esquire, of Te Kuiti,

to be Returning Officer and person to prepare the roll of electors in connection with the first election of the Board of the Mangapu Drainage District; also to appoint Wednesday, the 3rd day of March, 1926, to be the day, and the office of Richard Ormsby, Esquire, Sheridan Street, Te Kuiti, the office of Alexander Scholes, Hangatiki, and the offices of the Otorohanga County Council, Otorohanga, to be the places, for holding such election; also to appoint Wednesday, the 10th day of March, 1926, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, to be the day and the hour, and the said office of Richard Ormsby, Esquire, Sheridan Street, Te Kuiti, to be the place, for holding the first meeting of the Board so elected.

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

Cancellation of Appointment as Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs, of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby cancel the appointment of

James Kennedy, of Taupo,

as a Ranger under the said Act for the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

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

Trustees of the Kawa West Rabbit District appointed.—Notice No. Ag. 551.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 11th February, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 75 (2) of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908,

Ashton, Mervyn Roy,
Broadbent, Samuel George,
Coverdale, Oswald Miles,
Hopping, Edward, and
Teasdale, George Burgess,

to be members of the Kawa West Board of Rabbit Trustees.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th February, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Edward Caldwell .. .. Kumara.
James Edward Dowrick .. .. Porangahau.
Thomas Francis Leonard .. .. Duntroon.
William Ernest Mudge .. .. Balfour.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.