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if he fails to carry out any of the following directions for the protection of his customers from infection by any communicable diseases, that is to say,—

(a) He shall cause all brushes, combs, hair, dusters, scissors, clippers, gowns, and like articles to be kept at all times in a scrupulously clean condition.

(b) He shall not use in the service of any person any razor, shaving-brush, or shaving-mug unless such razor, shaving-brush, or shaving-mug has been cleansed in boiling water or sterilized in disinfecting solution subsequent to having been used in the service of any other person.

(c) He shall not use on any person any towel or wash-cloth which has not been cleansed in boiling water since having been used in the service of any other person.

(d) He shall ensure that his hands and clothing are clean before beginning to perform the services of a barber or hairdresser on any person.

(e) He shall not apply to the skin of any person any lather or any sponge or cotton wool or powder-puff which has already been applied to the skin of any other person, and he shall not apply any styptic pencil or crystal to the skin of any person unless such pencil or crystal has been dipped in boiling water immediately prior to such application.

(f) He shall sterilize by boiling for twenty minutes or by immersion for thirty minutes in a solution of formaldehyde (one part of formalin and sixteen parts of water) any brush and any mug which has been used in the process of shaving any person whose skin is inflamed or suppurating, and shall disinfect by immersion either in boiling water or in a disinfectant solution approved by the Medical Officer of Health any razor, clippers, scissors, or other sharp instrument which has been applied to an inflamed or suppurating surface.

10. FEES.

(1) Upon the issue of any certificate of registration under these regulations there shall be payable to the local authority by the applicant a registration fee of ten shillings, and such fee shall be paid prior to the issue of the certificate.

(2) No fee shall be payable on any endorsement of a certificate of registration on the issue of any duplicate copy of a certificate under clause (4) of Regulation 5 hereof.

(3) Upon the issue of any certificate of registration in respect of premises which are substituted for premises in respect of which a certificate has already been issued, if the current certificate is surrendered no fee shall be payable in respect of any period covered by the new certificate for which the previous certificate would if not surrendered have remained in force.

11. PENALTY.

(1) Every person committing a breach of these regulations shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

SCHEDULE.

THE following cities and boroughs:—

Whangarei. Wanganui.
Takapuna Feilding.
Devonport. Palmerston North.
Auckland. Levin.
Avondale. Masterton.
Newmarket Lower Hutt.
Mount Eden. Petone.
Mount Albert. Wellington.
Onehunga. Blenheim.
Otahuhu. Nelson.
Hamilton. Westport.
Morrinsville. Greymouth.
Waihi. Christchurch.
Thames. Riccarton.
Paeroa. New Brighton.
Rotorua. Sumner.
Gisborne. Lyttelton.
Wairoa. Ashburton.
Napier. Timaru.
Hastings. Oamaru.
Dannevirke. Dunedin.
New Plymouth. St. Kilda.
Stratford. Gore.
Hawera. Invercargill.
Patea.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Certain Birds absolutely protected.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred on me by section three of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that from and after the date hereof, the birds known as the Chatham Island Mollymawk (Thalassarche Eremita), brown kaka (Nestor occidentalis), Chatham Island shag (phalacrocorax onslowi), Bounty Island shag (phalacrocorax ranfurlyi), Auckland Island shag (phalacrocorax Colensoi), Campbell Island shag (phalacrocorax Campbelli), spotted shag (Stictocarbo punctatus), blue shag (Stictocarbo steadi), shall be deemed to be included in the First Schedule of the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of December, 1930.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/28/5.)

Appointing a Member of the Otago Harbour Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty-seven of the Harbours Act, 1923, that in the case of the death of a member of a Harbour Board his office shall become vacant and such vacancy shall be deemed an extraordinary vacancy: And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section thirty-eight of the said Act that when an elective member other than a representative of a constituent district vacates his office on the Board through the operation of the said section thirty-seven the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place: And whereas, Walter Gow, an elective member of the Otago Harbour Board, being a representative of the payers of harbour dues other than dues on ships, is deceased, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person as a representative of such payers of harbour dues in his place: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

George Newey

to be a member of the Otago Harbour Board as a representative of the payers of harbour dues other than dues on ships in the place of Walter Gow, deceased.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of December, 1930.

JAS. B. DONALD, Minister of Marine.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of State Forest in the Canterbury Forest-conservation Region for other Land.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section four of the Forests Amendment Act, 1925, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of State forest which is subject to the provisions of the Forests Act, 1921–22, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the area of State forest described in the First Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of State forest described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT, CANTERBURY FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres 2 roods 11 perches, more or less, being part of Rural Section 33044 (part of Eyrewell Plantation, Gazette, 1929, page 519), situated in Block III, Rolleston Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Towards the north and east by Rural Section 33045, 936·05 links and 2900 links respectively; and towards the south-west by