706 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 28

Regulations under the Cook Islands Act, 1915.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of April, 1936.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling him in that 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 make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Cook Island Census Regulations, 1936.

2. A census shall be taken in the Cook Islands on the 30th day of April, 1936.

3. For the purpose of taking the census a Resident Commissioner or a Resident Agent may assign duties to such officers as are required.

4. For the purpose of these regulations a dwelling means any building or erection, whether permanent or temporary, which is wholly or partly used for human habitation, and includes a vessel at or on any island of the Cook Islands or on a passage between any two of such islands.

5. The census of Europeans and of Natives attached to dwellings occupied by a European or Europeans shall be taken by means of schedules containing particulars which shall be furnished by every occupier or person in charge of a dwelling occupied by a European or Europeans.

6. It shall be the duty of every occupier or person in charge of a dwelling which is occupied by a European or Europeans to ensure that the particulars required by the schedules are furnished with respect to—
   (a) Every European who abode in the dwelling on the night of the census and who was alive at midnight; and
   (b) Every European who, not being included in any other schedule of the census, arrived at or returned to such dwelling after midnight on the night of the census and before midnight of the day following; and
   (c) Every Native residing in or customarily performing services in or about such dwelling and who was alive at midnight on the night of the census and not included in any other schedule of the census.

7. If the person in respect of whom particulars are required pursuant to clause 6 of these regulations is not the occupier or person in charge of the dwelling it shall be his duty to furnish to the occupier or person in charge the particulars necessary to fill up the schedules, or to fill up a personal schedule and deliver it to the occupier or person in charge.

8. The particulars which shall be obtained by means of the said schedules shall be as follows:—
   (a) Covering schedule:—
   (1) Nature of establishment:
   (2) Name of island in which situated:
   (3) Number of persons who—
   (i) Being Europeans abode in the dwelling on the night of the census and who were alive at midnight; or
   (ii) Being Europeans not included in any other schedule of the census arrived at or returned to the dwelling after midnight on the night of the census and before midnight of the day following; or
   (iii) Being Natives resided in or customarily performed services in or about the dwelling and were alive at midnight on the night of the census and were not included in any other schedule of the census: