Oct. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2133

SCHEDULE.
RATES OF FEES.

Common jurors attending any civil or criminal sitting, or any juror attending a Coroner’s inquest—
For attendance for a period exceeding three hours on any one day .. .. .. £ s. d.
.. 0 9 0
For attendance for a period not exceeding three hours on any one day .. .. .. 0 4 6

Special jurors: For every day’s attendance or part of a day’s attendance and actually serving as such— £ s. d.
For the first day .. .. .. 1 0 0
For each day thereafter .. .. .. 0 10 0

EXPENSES OF LOCOMOTION.

In addition to the fees prescribed, jurors residing beyond three miles from the Courthouse, or, in the case of an inquest, from the Courthouse or other place at which the inquest is held, shall receive a refund of the actual expenses of locomotion in attending such sittings or inquest, to include railway, coach, or steamer fares. Receipts must be furnished for fares over 5s. other than railway fares. When there is no public conveyance, such jurors shall be allowed a mileage rate of 9d. per mile one way.

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

Prescribing Rates of Fees and Allowances under the Payment of Jurors Act, 1919.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of October, 1932.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by section eight of the Coroners Amendment 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, doth hereby revoke the regulation made on the nineteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and published in the Gazette of the same date, prescribing the scale of expenses that may be paid to witnesses, other than medical witnesses, for attendance at Coroner’s inquests, and doth hereby make the following regulation in lieu thereof; and doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall come into force on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two.

REGULATION.

The scale of expenses that may be paid to witnesses, other than medical witnesses, for attendance at Coroners’ inquests shall be as follows:—

(a) For every day’s attendance at an inquest, or necessary absence from usual place of abode:—
Where the period of such attendance or absence exceeds three hours, not exceeding the sum of .. .. s. d.
.. 8 0
Where such period does not exceed three hours, not exceeding the sum of .. .. .. 4 0
And in addition thereto, for every night’s necessary absence from such place of abode, not exceeding the sum of .. .. .. 3 6
Provided that no person in receipt of salary or wages from the General Government shall be paid any expenses as above for attendance as a witness at a Coroner’s inquest unless he is by reason of such attendance necessarily absent at night from his usual place of abode. If he is not so absent, such a person may be paid a sum not exceeding the amount of his actual personal expenses.

(b) Witnesses residing beyond three miles from the Courthouse or other place at which the inquest is held may also be allowed their fares by public conveyance. Second-class fares may be allowed to mechanics, labourers, and persons of similar rank, and first-class fares to others. Receipts must be furnished for fares over 5s. other than railway fares.

When there is no public conveyance such witnesses may be allowed a mileage rate of 9d. per mile one way.

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

Appointing Members of National War Funds Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of October, 1932.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the War Funds Act, 1915, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint—

George Mitchell, D.S.O., and
Alfred Cowles, Esquire,

of Wellington, to be members of the National War Funds Council, in lieu of—

Sir John Luke, Kt., C.M.G., and
James Hislop, Esquire, C.V.O., O.B.E.,

deceased.

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

(I.A. 30/1/404.)

Consenting to Stopping Portion of a Road in Block XV, Motu Survey District, and Block III, Ngatapa Survey District, Waikohu County.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of October, 1932.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities 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 consent to the Waikohu County Council stopping the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be stopped:—
A. R. P.
3 0 13- (Section 2, Block XV, Motu Survey District.
Section 1, Block III, Ngatapa Survey District.
(Gisborne R.D.) (S.O. 1416, brown.)

In the Gisborne Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 83600, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

(P.W. 36/664.)

Constituting the Waikato Central Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3073.)

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of October, 1932.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by section thirty of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, on petition in that behalf signed by a majority of the persons qualified to be enrolled on the ratepayers’ list of any proposed district, constitute and declare any area of land of not less than one thousand acres a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act :

And whereas, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section thirty of the said Act, a petition has been received praying that the area of land described in the Schedule hereto be constituted and declared a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act, and it is deemed expedient to give effect to the prayer of the petitioners accordingly :