Nov. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3433

Setting aside Native Land as a Native Reservation.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of October, 1934.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and ninety-eight of the Native Land Act, 1931, it is enacted, inter alia, that when any Native freehold land is owned at law or in equity by more than ten owners in common the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, set apart and reserve any part of that land for the common use of the owners thereof as in the said Act provided:

And whereas the Native Land Court has recommended that the land described in the Schedule hereto be set apart as a Native reservation:

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 thereunto him enabling, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby set apart and reserve the Native freehold land described in the Schedule hereto for the common use of the owners thereof as a meeting-place.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land situate in the Aotea Native Land Court District, called or known as Umutahi No. 11 Block, containing 10 acres, more or less, being part Section 59, Block I, Hawera Survey District, and being all the land comprised and described in an order of the Native Land Court on partition dated the 10th day of May, 1934.

F. D. THOMSON
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Suspending the Operation of certain Statutes in connection with the Canterbury Metropolitan Show.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of October, 1934.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Showgrounds, Addington, from the eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, to the ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four (both days inclusive), and to be known as the Canterbury Metropolitan 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 in 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.

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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.

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The Eastern Side of Portion of Pavitt Street, in the City of Christchurch, exempted from the Provisions of Section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of October, 1934.

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 Christchurch City Council on the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, the portion of street affected by such resolution being more particularly described in the Schedule hereto, viz.:—

“The Christchurch City Council, being the local authority having control of the streets in the City of Christchurch, hereby by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall not apply to the portion of the east side of Pavitt Street, Richmond, adjoining land contained in Certificate of Title, Volume 388/214 and 388/215 ”;

subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the eastern side of the portion of Pavitt Street (described in the Schedule hereto) within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street.

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SCHEDULE.

THE eastern side of all that portion of street, situated in the Canterbury Land District, City of Christchurch, known as Pavitt Street, fronting parts Rural Section 41, being the land contained in Certificates of Title, Volume 388, folios 214 and 215 (Christchurch Registry). As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 88193, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 51/1920.)