6. The owner of a fishing-boat which is employed in the Home Trade or in river or extended-river limits, and which is not required to be registered under Part XII of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908; may, on payment of a fee of £1, elect that the tonnage shall be ascertained by a Surveyor of Ships in accordance with any instructions as to tonnage measurement of ships issued by the Imperial Board of Trade, provided that—
   (a) When any deduction for crew space is claimed in boats measured in accordance with these instructions, such crew space shall be reasonable in extent and shall be constructed, lighted, and ventilated to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of Ships, taking into consideration the class of boat and the limits within which she is employed:
   (b) Any space for which deduction from tonnage is made shall be used solely for the specific purpose intended, and crew space shall at all times be kept free from goods, fish, or stores (except the personal property of the master or crew), and shall be marked over the doorway or entrance thereto in a permanent manner and to the satisfaction of the Surveyor of Ships denoting the purpose for which the space is used and the number of men each space is certified to accommodate:
   (c) No alteration in any space or the purpose for which such space has been exempted as aforesaid shall be made without the consent first obtained of a Superintendent, and if made without such consent the certificate of registry shall thereupon be deemed to be cancelled and void for any purpose whereby the tonnage of such fishing-boat is considered or used:
   (d) The register tonnage as determined under these regulations shall be cut in on the main beam or such other portion of the boat as the Surveyor of Ships may determine.
7. All measurements are to be taken in feet and tenths of a foot.

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

Authorizing the Acquisition of Native Land notwithstanding the Provisions as to Limitation of Area.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
MICHAEL MYERS.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of October, 1934.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by section two hundred and forty-six of the Native Land Act, 1931, it is enacted that the Governor-General may by Order in Council in any case in which he deems it expedient in the public interest so to do, authorize any acquisition, alienation, or disposition of any land, or any interest therein, notwithstanding the statutory provisions therein referred to:
And whereas it appears expedient to authorize the acquisition, alienation, or disposition of the land hereinafter mentioned:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and all other powers him enabling, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize the alienation by way of transfer to and the acquisition by the New Plymouth Borough Council of the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto, notwithstanding the provisions of Part XII of the Native Land Act, 1931.

SCHEDULE.
All that area of land situate in the Borough of New Plymouth, in the Aotea Native Land Court District, comprising an area of 5 acres 0 roods 3 perches, and called or known as Moturoa la No. 1A Block, and being the whole of the land comprised in an order of the Native Land Court on partition dated the 30th day of May, 1930.

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

Amending the New Zealand Government Stores Control Board Regulations.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
MICHAEL MYERS.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of October, 1934.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section three of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, 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 amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the New Zealand Government Stores Control Board Regulations, 1925, made by Order in Council on the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the Gazette of the following day, at page 3042, and doth direct that the amendments hereby made shall form part of and be read with the aforesaid regulations, and shall come into force on the date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.
Clause 9 of the regulations is hereby amended by deleting the first sentence thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the following words:—
"9. There shall be a secretary to the Board who shall be an officer of the Treasury."

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

Declaring that the Regular Carriage of Patients to Hospitals by Motor-vehicle shall be deemed to constitute a Passenger-service in Terms of Section 30 of the Transport Law Amendment Act, 1933.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
MICHAEL MYERS.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of October, 1934.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
PURSUANT to section thirty of the Transport Law Amendment Act, 1933, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and being satisfied that persons are being carried by motor-vehicle to the extent hereinafter described in such a manner as in effect to constitute a regular public service, doth hereby declare the following manner of transport, that is to say, the carriage by motor-vehicle of patients to or from public or private hospitals in such a manner as in effect to constitute a regular public service, to be the carrying-on of a passenger-service within the meaning of the Transport Licensing Act, 1931.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(TT. 19/42.)

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Springston South Domain.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
MICHAEL MYERS.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of October, 1934.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-four of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with