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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44

Amending Regulations under the Health Act as to Carriage and Storage of Milk and Cream.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of July, 1936.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Health Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and of all other powers 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 amend the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-fourth day of the same month (hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”), and amending regulations made under the said Act on the seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and published in the Gazette on the twentieth day of the same month, at page 1728 (hereinafter referred to as “the amending regulations”), as follows.

REGULATIONS.

1. Regulation 1 of the amending regulations defining the term “milk” to include cream is hereby revoked.

2. Regulation 12 of the principal regulations is hereby amended as follows:—

(a) By inserting after clause (5) the following additional clause:—

“(5A) No person shall keep or store in the same room or part of any premises where milk is kept or stored for sale any water or stale milk or any other fluid capable of being used for diluting or mixing with milk.”

(b) By revoking clause (17), and substituting therefor the following:—

“(17) No person while carrying in any vehicle milk for sale or for delivery to a customer shall carry or convey water or stale milk in the same vehicle or any other fluid capable of being used for diluting or mixing with milk.”

(c) By inserting after clause (17) the following additional clauses:—

“(18) In these regulations provisions applying to the preparation, storage, treatment, bottling, and sale of milk shall likewise apply to the preparation, storage, treatment, bottling, and sale of cream.

“(19) (1) In these regulations stale milk shall be deemed to be milk which, when subjected to the reductase test, shall completely decolorize the methylene blue in less than three hours.

“(2) In any proceedings for an offence against these regulations the fact that on the application of the reductase test the methylene blue was completely decolorized in less than three hours shall not be sufficient evidence that the milk was stale, unless—

“(i) The reductase test was applied within four hours after the milk was purchased or otherwise procured; and

“(ii) The milk was continuously kept in an ice-cooled box from the time when it was purchased or otherwise procured as aforesaid until the application of the test.

“Method of applying Reductase Test.

“(3) A stock solution is prepared by dissolving one part of powdered methylene blue (not the zinc salt) in 2,000 parts of water. Immediately prior to use one part of this solution is diluted with nine parts of water. One cubic centimetre of the diluted solution is mixed with ten cubic centimetres of the milk in a test tube which is then immersed to at least the level of the contained fluid in water kept between the temperatures of 37° C. and 39° C.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(H.H. 36/5.)

Regulations under the State Advances Corporation Act, 1934–35, and its Amendments, and the State Advances Corporation Act, 1936.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of July, 1936.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the State Advances Corporation Act, 1936, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, 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 regulations hereinafter set forth; and doth declare that these regulations shall come into force on the fifteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six.

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations—

“Board of Management” and “Board” means the Board of Management of the Corporation:

“Corporation” means the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand established under the State Advances Corporation Act, 1934–35, and the State Advances Corporation Act, 1936:

“Minister” means the Minister of Finance.

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT.

2. The Board of Management shall meet for the despatch of business at such time and in such place as the Board from time to time appoints; it may regulate its meetings as it thinks fit; and may, upon the adjournment of any meeting, appoint a time and place for holding the adjourned meeting: Provided that a member of the Board may, and the Secretary, on the requisition of the Minister or any member, shall at any time summon a meeting of the Board.

3. The Board shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose—

(a) Of all appointments of officers made on the recommendation of the Board.

(b) Of the names of the members of the Board present at each meeting of the Board and of any committee of the Board.

(c) Of all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Board and all committees of the Board.

4. The Board may delegate any of its powers to committees consisting of such Director or Directors as it thinks fit. Any committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any directions that may be given to it by the Board.

5. The Board may from time to time confer upon any Committee of Directors, appointed pursuant to Regulation 4 hereof, power to sub-delegate such of the powers conferred by the Board on such committee as the Board may think fit, and any such Committee of Directors may sub-delegate from time to time to the Managing Directors, or either of the Managing Directors, or to any officials of the Corporation, such of the powers delegated by the Board to such Committee of Directors as may be requisite or expedient for the furtherance of the administration and carrying into effect of the functions of the Corporation, and such Committee of Directors may (so far as is not inconsistent with the powers delegated by the Board to such Committee of Directors) from time to time revoke or add to or vary any such sub-delegated powers, and the Managing Directors may from time to time further sub-delegate or delegate to any officials of the Corporation (i) such of the powers sub-delegated to the Managing Directors by such Committee of Directors, and (ii) such of the powers that may be directly delegated by the Board to the Managing Directors, and (iii) such of the powers vested in the Managing Directors in their capacity as principal executive officers, as may in each case be requisite or expedient for the like purpose and the furtherance of the administration and carrying into effect the functions of the Board.

6. The Chairman of the Board shall be the Chairman at any meeting of a committee at which he is present. If the Chairman is not present, the Deputy Chairman of the Board, if present, shall preside. In the absence at