Nov. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3137

Regulations under the Stock Act, 1908, amended to prohibit the Introduction into New Zealand of Animal Manures from India.—(Notice No. Ag. 2998.)

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st day of October, 1931.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Stock Act, 1908, 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 further amend the regulations for the prevention of the introduction into New Zealand of diseases affecting stock, made under the said Act on the fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the Gazette on the seventh day of the same month, at page 3420, by revoking clauses eighty-six to one hundred and seven (both inclusive) thereof, in so far as they relate to the introduction of animal manures from India, and doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall come into force on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, but shall have no application to any animal manures which may have been lawfully shipped from India to New Zealand pursuant to the provisions of the regulations hereby revoked prior to the coming into force of this Order in Council.

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

Suspending the Operation of certain Statutes in connection with the New Zealand Royal Show.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st day of October, 1931.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Exhibitions Act, 1910 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), 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 authorize the holding of a public exhibition of works of industry and art to be conducted by the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Incorporated) in the Show-grounds, Addington, from the eleventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, to the thirteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one (both days inclusive), and to be known as the New Zealand Royal Show, 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 o’clock 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 Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

(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.

Declaring Road-lines adjoining or intersecting Land in Kinloch Settlement, Canterbury Land District, to be closed, and the Land comprised therein to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that the said roads are adjacent to or intersect land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and are not suitable to the subdivision of such land :

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and six of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby close the roads hereinafter described ; and I do hereby declare that the land comprised in the said roads shall thereupon become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of roads to be closed :—

A. R. P. Adjoining or intersecting
0 2 30 Rural Section 2040, situated in Block V, Akaroa Survey District.
11 1 30 Rural Sections 2040, 2042, 18615, 18616, 18617, 18627, 18652, 18653, 18654, 24314, and closed road, situated in Block V, Akaroa Survey District.
0 0 0·5 Rural Section 24314, situated in Block V, Akaroa Survey District.
5 1 21 Rural Section 24314, situated in Block V, Akaroa Survey District.
0 0 4·4 Rural Section 24314, situated in Block V, Akaroa Survey District.
10 2 0 Rural Sections 25529, 28247, 28248, and 35038, situated in Block VI, Akaroa Survey District.
2 2 30 Rural Section 25529, situated in Block VI, Akaroa Survey District.
1 3 15 Rural Section 25529, situated in Block VI, Akaroa Survey District.
2 3 25 Rural Sections 25529, 27527, 27528, and 34351, situated in Block VI, Akaroa Survey District.
8 1 15 Rural Sections 27524, 27525, 27526, and 27528, situated in Block VI, Akaroa Survey District.
11 3 20 Rural Sections 7867, 22758, and 23210, situated in Blocks VI and X, Akaroa Survey District.
0 2 15 Rural Section 22758, situated in Block X, Akaroa Survey District.

(Plan 927/168.)

In the Canterbury Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 19314v, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2513, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 6th day of December, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 19314.)