2052

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 50

such honey, determined in accordance with these regulations: and shall also sign and deliver to the owner a certificate of the grade (herein called the “grade-certificate”), in the form set out in the Third Schedule hereto; provided, however, that no grade-certificate shall be issued in respect of honey scoring less than 80 points in the grading, and no grade-mark shall be placed on any case containing any such honey, but in any such case a notification of the result of the grading shall be sent by the Grader to the owner of the honey.

13. No person shall remove from any appointed grading-store, except for the purpose of immediately shipping it for export beyond the Dominion, any honey for which a grade certificate had been issued unless the grade-certificate is surrendered to the Grader and the grade-mark upon the package has been erased.

14. If any honey, after being graded and prior to its export from the Dominion, is damaged or, in the opinion of any Grader, deteriorates, the owner of such honey shall, if and when directed by the Grader to do so, submit such honey for re-examination, and shall surrender to the Grader the grade-certificate issued in respect thereof.

15. No honey in respect of which the grade-certificate has been or ought to have been surrendered in accordance with the two last preceding regulations shall be exported until it has been resubmitted for grading and a new certificate has been issued in respect thereof.

16. No honey shall be exported from the Dominion which scores less than 80 points in the grading.

17. No honey shall be exported from the Dominion if the containers or cases show any signs of damage.

18. The decision of any Grader as to the quality, condition, or grade of any honey shall be conclusive, and no action or other proceeding shall lie against any Grader or against any other officer of the Crown, or against the Crown, in respect of any erroneous decision of a Grader as to such quality, condition, or grade.

19. Except as otherwise provided in these regulations, no person shall alter or obliterate wholly or partially, or cause to be altered or obliterated, any grade-mark, nor shall any person counterfeit or improperly impress any such grade mark on any package containing honey or intended to contain honey.

20. Liquid honey packed in glass containers holding not more than two pounds weight of honey, and granulated honey packed in glass or tin containers holding not more than two pounds weight of honey, may be exported in circumstances where satisfactory control of such honey in respect to grading can be arranged, and provided that all such honey is packed under such conditions as to blending for the purpose of ensuring uniformity as to colour, flavour, &c., as are approved by the Director.

21. Any person committing or concerned in committing a breach of these regulations is liable to a fine not exceeding £20.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ADVICE-NOTE SUBMITTING HONEY FOR GRADING.

The Honey Grader, Department of Agriculture,

In compliance with the regulations under the Apiaries Act, 1927, I hereby submit for grading the undermentioned honey, which I have forwarded this day per to the grading-store belonging to at the Port of .

Please send the certificate to

Number of packages :

Net weight :

Brand and mark :

[Address and date.] [Signature of Owner.]

SECOND SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF EXPORT BRAND FOR HONEY.

The Director of the Horticulture Division, Department of Agriculture, Wellington.

I [We], , of , a shipper of honey for export, do hereby request you to register the brand of which a copy is attached for use by me [us] in branding packages containing honey intended for export, as required by the regulations in force under the Apiaries Act, 1927, relating to the export of honey.

[Address and date.] [Signature.]

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Dominion of New Zealand.

Department of Agriculture (Division of Horticulture).

GRADE-CERTIFICATE FOR EXPORT HONEY.

I HEREBY certify that I have this day classed and graded packages of the undernoted honey as follows, and at the same time have stamped the packages according to class and grade :—

. . . . . . . packages Special Grade . . . . . . . honey.

. . . . . . . packages A or Prime Grade . . . . . . . honey.

. . . . . . . packages B or Good Grade . . . . . . . honey.

Total number of packages :

Brand :

Producer’s No. :

PURE HONEY.

Remarks :

Port :

Date : , 19 . . . . . . . . . . , Grader.

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

Extending Time for holding Election of Trustees for Kirikiri roa Drainage District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day of June, 1928.

Present :

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

WHEREAS by section ten of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, it is provided that on the first Monday in the month of November in the year following the year in which the first trustees for any drainage district are elected, and on the same day in each succeeding third year thereafter, an election of trustees for each district shall be held :

And whereas an election of trustees for the Kirikiri roa Drainage District should have been held on the seventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven :

And whereas it is expedient to extend the time for holding such election of trustees for the Kirikiri roa Drainage District :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section twenty-two of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1922, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby extend the time for holding the aforesaid election of trustees for the Kirikiri roa Drainage District; and doth hereby order and declare that in the aforesaid drainage district the said election shall be held and take place on Tuesday, the seventeenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

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

(I.A. 19/78/58.)