JUNE 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1987

Regulations under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, governing the Removal of certain Plants and Bees from the North Island to the Rest of New Zealand.—Notice No. Ag. 2658.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of June, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, 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 revoke the regulations made by the Orders in Council referred to in the First Schedule hereto, and doth make the following regulations in lieu thereof; and doth declare that such revocation shall take effect and the regulations hereby made shall come into force on and from the date of publication hereof in the Gazette.

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REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations—
   “Plant” includes any portion of a plant, excepting fruit:
   “Disease” means the disease known as fireblight (Bacillus amylovorus).

2. No person shall send or bring any plant of any variety of apple, pear, quince, or crataegus (hawthorns) from the North Island into any other portion of New Zealand:
   Provided that nothing in this regulation shall apply to the sending by an officer of the Department of Agriculture under proper safeguards of any plant of any of the above-mentioned kinds for the purpose of identification of disease.

3. (1) No person shall send or bring any package of trees or shrubs, or portions of trees or shrubs, from the North Island to any other portion of New Zealand unless such package is accompanied by a certificate, in the form set out in the Second Schedule hereto, signed by or on behalf of the consignor, stating that no plant or portion of a plant of any variety of apple, pear, quince, or crataegus is contained in the package.
   (2) The certificate shall be endorsed on a tag or label securely attached to the package in a prominent position.
   (3) No person shall carry or despatch or deliver for purposes of despatch to any officer of the Post Office or the Railway Department or any other person any package containing trees or shrubs or portions of trees or shrubs intended to be sent from the North Island to any other portion of New Zealand, and not having attached thereto as herein provided the certificate required by this regulation.

4. (1) No person shall send or bring any bees from the North Island to any other portion of New Zealand unless such bees have been effectively quarantined at a place of quarantine as provided by this regulation for the six days immediately prior to their despatch from that Island, so as to prevent their having access to any flowers or other vegetation.
   (2) The Director of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture shall appoint such places of quarantine within the North Island, and shall impose such conditions for their use, as he deems necessary.
   (3) After completing the prescribed period of six days in quarantine the bees shall be forwarded direct from the place of quarantine to their final destination, an official permit in the form set out in the Third Schedule hereto or to the like effect, signed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture, being attached by tag or label to each parcel of such bees.
   (4) No person shall carry or despatch or deliver for purposes of despatch to any officer of the Post Office or the Railway Department or any other person any package containing bees intended to be sent from the North Island to any other portion of New Zealand and not having attached thereto as herein provided the permit required by this regulation.
   (5) All expenses of sending bees to a place of quarantine and of forwarding them on completion of their period of quarantine to their destination outside the North Island shall be borne by the original sender of such bees, and shall be payable on demand.
   (6) The officer of the Department of Agriculture in charge of any place of quarantine may in his discretion, before accepting any bees intended to be dealt with under this regulation, require the person delivering the same to him to prepay to him the estimated expense of sending the same to their destination.
   (7) Every person who does or omits any act in contravention of these regulations, or signs any certificate under these regulations which contains a false statement, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

CERTIFICATE TO ACCOMPANY PACKAGES OF PLANTS FROM THE NORTH ISLAND.

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that no plant or portion of a plant of any variety of apple, pear, quince, or crataegus is contained in this package.

Date:
Place:
Signature:
Witness to signature:

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THIRD SCHEDULE.

OFFICIAL PERMIT TO ACCOMPANY PACKAGES OF BEES FROM THE NORTH ISLAND.

I, , an officer of the Department of Agriculture duly authorized for the purpose, do hereby authorize the despatch by [Name and address] to [Name and address] of the bees contained in the attached package.

Signature:
Designation:
Place and date:

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

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The Western Side of Portion of Fitzherbert Street, in the Borough of Petone, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of June, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Petone Borough Council on the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, the portion of street affected by such resolution being more particularly described in the Schedule hereto, viz. :—

“The Petone Borough Council, being the local authority having control of the street hereinafter mentioned, hereby resolves and declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen, subsection one, of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the western side of that portion of Fitzherbert Street, Petone, fronting the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Vol. 120, folio 26, Wellington Registry, as shown coloured red on the plan annexed hereto ”;

subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the western side of the portion of Fitzherbert Street (described in the Schedule hereto) within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street.

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SCHEDULE.

THE western side of all that portion of street situated in the Wellington Land District, Borough of Petone, known as Fitzherbert Street, fronting Lots 1 and 2, D.P. 8239 of Lot 72, plan 412, part Section 4, Hutt District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 69063, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 51/715.)