Oct. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2747

Land temporarily reserved in the Gisborne Land District for a Site for a Public School (Wairata).

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Gisborne Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for a site for a public school (Wairata).

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SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 6, Block XVI, Waioeka Survey District: Area, 5 acres 0 roods 20 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of October, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

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Postmaster authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and one of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Ernest Mather, being a person holding the office of Postmaster at Raurimu, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness my hand, this 24th day of October, 1929.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

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Ross Dependency Whaling Regulations.

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WHEREAS by His Majesty’s Order in Council made under the British Settlements Act, 1887 (Imperial), on the thirtieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at page 2211 (hereinafter called “the said Order”), the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand for the time being (thereinafter and hereinafter called “the Governor”) was appointed to be the Governor of the Ross Dependency, and all the powers and authorities which by the said Order were given and granted to the Governor for the time being of the Ross Dependency were thereby vested in him:

And whereas the said Governor was thereby further authorized and empowered to make all such rules and regulations as might lawfully be made by His Majesty’s authority for the peace, order, and good government of the said Dependency:

And whereas by regulations made by the Governor on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at page 2815, it was enacted that the laws and usages in force in the Dominion of New Zealand at the date of the said regulations should be from that date in force in the Ross Dependency:

And whereas by the Ross Dependency Whaling Regulations, 1926, further provision was made in the premises:

And whereas it is expedient to amend the said regulations of the fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and in the manner hereinafter appearing, and to revoke the Ross Dependency Whaling Regulations, 1926, and to make the provisions hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand for the time being, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Order, and of all other powers and authorities me in anywise thereto enabling, revoke the said Ross Dependency Whaling Regulations, 1926, and do make the regulations hereinafter set out,

REGULATIONS.

1. PRELIMINARY.

(1) THESE regulations may be cited as the Ross Dependency Whaling Regulations, 1929.

(2) In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,–

“The Dependency” means the Ross Dependency:

“Officer” means any person appointed as an officer of the Government in pursuance of the powers conferred by the said Order, and having conferred upon him the powers and authorities which may be exercised by a Justice of the Peace in New Zealand.

(3) These regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

(4) Any instrument issued by His Majesty prior to the said Order whereby any right or power conferred on any person to engage in whaling in the Dependency shall enure for all purposes as a license issued under these regulations, but shall, notwithstanding these regulations, continue in force according to the tenor thereof.

2. FISHERIES AMENDMENT ACT, 1912, NOT TO BE APPLICABLE TO THE DEPENDENCY.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the hereinbefore-recited regulations of the fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the Fisheries Amendment Act, 1912, shall not be in force in the Dependency.

3. LICENSES TO ENGAGE IN WHALING.

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in whaling in the Dependency without a license so to do as hereinafter provided.

(2) The Governor may from time to time license any person to engage in whaling in the Dependency or in any portion thereof.

(3) Any such license may be in such form and for such period (not exceeding twenty-one years) as the Governor may in any case think fit, and may be granted subject to such conditions (including conditions for revocation), and upon the entering by the licensee into such covenants and agreements as the Governor may in any case require, and may be granted subject to restrictions as to the number of vessels or the number of vessels of any class by means of which the licensee may so engage in whaling or in any part of his whaling undertaking.

(4) The fee payable in respect of every license issued as hereinbefore provided shall be £200 for every year or part of a year computed from the 30th day of September in respect of which the license is granted, and in addition to such annual fee there may be made payable such royalty or other payments as the Governor may in any case think fit to require.

(5) Any person engaged in whaling without a license commits an offence, and is liable to a fine not exceeding £1,000 for each separate day on which an offence against this regulation is proved to be committed.

(6) The owner or master of any vessel engaged in whaling operations pursuant to any license issued under these regulations, and failing to comply with all or any of the provisions contained in the license, commits an offence, and is liable to a fine not exceeding £100 for each separate day on which an offence against this regulation is proved to be committed.

(7) Any vessel, being a floating whale-factory, engaged in whaling operations shall be so constructed and equipped as to be capable of converting any whale into commercial products within forty-eight hours after the delivery of the whale to the factory.

(8) The owner or master of any vessel used as a floating whale-factory who fails or neglects to construct or equip such vessel as hereinbefore required, or who, without reasonable cause, fails or neglects to convert any whale received by the factory into commercial products within forty-eight hours after the delivery of such whale to the factory, commits an offence, and is liable to a fine not exceeding £100 for each separate day on which an offence against this regulation is proved to be committed.

4. ARREST OF VESSELS.

(1) Any officer before whom an information is laid for an offence against these regulations alleged to be committed in respect of any vessel may issue his warrant authorizing any person named therein to arrest and detain the said vessel, and to keep the same under safe arrest until the matter of such information shall have been finally determined, and until any fine inflicted upon conviction thereunder shall have been paid or satisfied or until the amount of the maximum fine that may be inflicted for the offence alleged in such information has been deposited with an officer, and such ship may be so arrested and detained at any time thereafter and either before