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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1928, amended.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section fifty-three of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and of every other authority 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 the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1928, in the manner hereinafter set forth.

REGULATIONS.

1. (a) THESE regulations may be cited as “The Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1928, Amendment No. 1.”
   (b) These regulations shall come into force on the date of publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.
   (c) In these regulations the term “the principal regulations” means the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1928.

2. Clause (5) of Regulation 1 of the principal regulations is hereby revoked and the following clause substituted in lieu thereof:—
   “(5) The Resident Commissioner may from time to time, by writing under his hand, appoint fit persons to be Fruit Inspectors or Assistant Fruit Inspectors for the purposes of these regulations, and may in like manner from time to time determine any such appointment.
   “The production of an instrument of appointment shall be prima facie evidence that the person named therein is for the time being a Fruit Inspector or an Assistant Fruit Inspector, as the case may be, for the purposes of these regulations.”

3. Clause (2) of Regulation 7 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by omitting the words “and the exporter shall provide all labour required for handling fruit in a fumigator.”

4. Clause (8) of Regulation 10 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by omitting the word “district” therefrom.

5. Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by adding thereto the following additional clause:—
   “(8) It shall be an offence for any person to pack, sell, or offer for sale any fruit intended for export which shall be unfit for export by reason of the same being infected, immature, overmature, under-grade, overgrade, or otherwise not in a fit condition for export, or by reason of such fruit being badly or improperly packed.”

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

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities, and prescribing Terms and Rates of Interest.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of November, 1928.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, it shall not be lawful or competent for any local authority to borrow or contract to borrow any money (otherwise than in anticipation of its revenue within the limits of its powers, if any, in that behalf), whether from the State Advances Office or from any other source whatever, and whether in pursuance of a special Act or under any authority whatever, without the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council given after compliance with the provisions of the said Act:

And whereas section eleven of the said Act provides that the Governor-General in Council, in giving his consent to the borrowing of moneys by the local authority, may impose such conditions with respect to the time at which such moneys may be borrowed, the rate of interest that may be paid in respect thereto, the term for which they may be borrowed, and provisions for repayment thereof as he thinks fit, and that it shall not be lawful for the local authority to borrow such moneys save in accordance with the conditions so imposed:

And whereas the several local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto are desirous of raising the respective amounts set out opposite their names therein: