works of industry and art to be conducted by the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Incorporated) and the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association (Incorporated) in the King Edward Barracks at Christchurch, from the eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, to the twenty-second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one (both days inclusive), and to be known as the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition of Industries, and doth hereby declare the said exhibition to be an exhibition within the meaning of the said Act, and doth hereby suspend, subject, however, to the conditions set out in the Schedule hereto, all the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, the Factories Act, 1921–22, and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and of all awards and industrial agreements in force under the last-named Act in so far as such provisions relate to the hours of commencing or ceasing work, or to the issue of permits for overtime or extended hours, or to holidays or half-holidays, or to the closing of shops to any person, and so far as such provisions relate to hours of work done or business conducted or service carried out in or upon the premises aforesaid during the period aforesaid by or on behalf of the bodies conducting the said exhibition, or by or on behalf of any exhibitor of works of industry or art at the said exhibition, or by any person employed in or about the said exhibition.

SCHEDULE.

(1) Eight hours shall constitute a day's work in or about the exhibition and, with the exception set out in clause 2 hereof, such hours shall be worked consecutively.

(2) No person shall be employed in or about the exhibition for more than four hours without an interval of at least three-quarters of an hour for a meal.

(3) Any person employed during any day in or about the exhibition who is employed on such day in excess of eight hours or before the hour of 8 a.m. or after the hour of 10.30 p.m. (whether such excess employment is in or about the exhibition or otherwise) shall be paid for such excess employment at not less than one-half as much again as the ordinary rate for the first two hours and at not less than twice the ordinary rate thereafter, and any person employed in or about the exhibition on any day that would, but for the provisions of this Order in Council, have been a whole holiday for such person by virtue of any Act or of any award or industrial agreement shall be paid for all work done on such day at not less than twice the ordinary rate, whether such work is performed wholly in or about the exhibition or otherwise.

(4) No female shall be employed in or about the exhibition after the hour of 10.30 p.m.

(5) For the purposes of the enforcement of an award or industrial agreement, any provision of which has been suspended by this Order in Council, any officer of the industrial union or association concerned, who is authorized in writing in that behalf by such union or association, shall be entitled to interview at his place of employment any person employed in or about the exhibition under that award or industrial agreement at such time or times as may be agreed upon by and between such officer and the employer of such person, and for this purpose any such officer shall be entitled at any reasonable time to have access to the register of passes issued by the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition Executive.

(6) Nothing in this Order in Council shall be deemed to affect any provisions in an award or industrial agreement relating to preference of employment.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

The Western Side of Portion of Leeds Street, in the City of Wellington, exempted from the Provisions of Section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of July, 1931.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1928, 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 Wellington City Council on the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, viz.:—

"The Wellington City Council, being the local authority having control of the streets in the City of Wellington, by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall not apply to that portion of the western side of Leeds Street fronting C.T.'s 340/121 and 340/122";

such portion of street being described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

THE western side of all that portion of street situated in the Wellington Land District, City of Wellington, known as Leeds Street, fronting the land contained in Certificates of Title Vol. 340, folios 121 and 122, being parts Section 181, Town of Wellington. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 81075, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

F. D. THOMSON,

(P.W. 51/791.) Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Holding of the Annual Meeting of the Mauriceville County Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of July, 1931.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section seventy-seven of the Counties Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), it is provided that the annual meeting of members of the County Councils throughout the Dominion shall be held annually on the fourth Wednesday in May:

And whereas the annual meeting of the Mauriceville County Council was not held at the prescribed time in respect of the present year, but was held instead on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one:

And whereas it is expedient to validate the holding of such annual meeting after the time required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section two hundred and sixteen of the said Act, 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 validate the aforesaid annual meeting of the Mauriceville County Council in so far as such annual meeting was not held on the day fixed by the said Act, and doth hereby declare that the proceedings in connection with the holding of such annual meeting shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

F. D. THOMSON,

(19/159/357.) Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portion of Mangaokewa Stream to be a Sanctuary under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, Auckland Acclimatization District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Act, and that no imported game or native game shall be taken or killed within the said area, except pursuant to an authority granted under section thirty-one or section thirty-two of the said Act: nor shall any person, except under such conditions as may from time to time be prescribed by the Minister, take any dog or firearm into such area, or discharge any firearm or explosive in such area, or do anything likely to cause any imported game or native game to leave such area.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area situated in the Borough of Te Kuiti, being that part of the Mangaokewa Stream lying within the boundaries of the said borough.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of July, 1931.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,

(I.A. 25/5/293.) Minister of Internal Affairs,