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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(6) All billiard-rooms shall remain open on week-days only
between the hours 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. Any person
committing a breach of this by-law shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding £1 for the first offence, not
exceeding £2 for the second offence, and for a subse-
quent offence shall be liable to have his license
revoked.

(7) No Maori under the age of fifteen shall be permitted
to play billiards on such licensed premises, and if
discovered playing therein the licensee or the
person for the time in charge of the premises shall
be liable to a fine of £5 for the first offence, and for a
second offence the Council may revoke the license.

(8) Any Maori under the age of fifteen years found playing
billiards in any place whatsoever shall be liable to
a fine not exceeding 5s. for the first offence, not
exceeding 10s. for the second offence, and not
exceeding £1 for the third offence or for every
subsequent offence.

(9) Any person keeping a billiard-room or a billiard-table
in any Maori kainga and any Maori keeping such a
room or table at any other place within the district,
except townships (but not Maori lots within a
Native township) and European settlements, with-
out license from the Council, shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding £20.

(10) Any person found playing for money, whether by
cards or any other game (except by billiards on
licensed premises), within the precincts of any
kainga shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5 for
the first offence, not exceeding £10 for the second
offence, and not exceeding £20 for every subsequent
offence.

(11) Any person, the owner, or occupier of any house or
premises situate in any Maori kainga, who shall
permit or allow gambling or playing for money
(except by billiards on licensed premises) in such
house or upon such premises shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding £5 for the first offence, not exceeding
£10 for the second offence, and not exceeding £20
for every subsequent offence.

N.—VILLAGE COMMITTEES.

70. The Council may delegate wholly or in part its powers
    under the prescribed rules or regulations to any village
    committee, and such committee shall thereupon be enabled
    to exercise such powers within its own kainga.

The village committee shall have power to impose a penalty
or a fine for any breach of regulation, and if such fine be not
paid within the prescribed period the chairman of the com-
mittee shall forward a report on and evidence of such breach
of regulation and of the non-payment of such fine to the
chairman of the Council.

71. The Council shall prescribe fines for by-laws for which
    no provision has been made.

O.—WELFARE AND MORAL WELL-BEING OF THE MAORI
INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT.

72. (1) Any person who having custody, control, or
    charge of a child, being a boy under fourteen years and a
    girl under the age of sixteen years, wilfully ill-treats, neglects,
    abandons, or exposes such child in a manner likely to cause
    such child unnecessary suffering or injury to its health, shall
    be liable to a penalty of not more than £20.

(2) It shall be an offence, within any Maori kainga or
Maori settlement surrounding a Maori kainga, to practise as
a Tohunga, or practise on the superstition and credulity of
the Maori people, by pretending to possess supernatural
powers of treatment and cure of disease.

Any person infringing this by-law shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding £20 for each offence.

(3) Every person within a Maori village, pa, or assemblage
of houses who ill-treats any animal or leaves any animal for
any time without sufficient food or water is liable to a fine
not exceeding £5.

(4) Any person who wilfully trespasses within a Maori
village and refuses to leave such village after being warned
to do so by a member of the Council or of the village com-
mittee, or such person as the Council or village committee
may depute for the purpose, is liable to a fine not exceeding
10s.

(5) (a) No person shall conduct a picture show or other
entertainment for profit or gain within a Maori village unless
licensed to do so by the village committee. Such license
shall be valid if signed by any two members of the village
committee.

(b) The fee for any such license shall be £1 per month or
part of a month, but the village committee may remit such
license fee either wholly or in part.

(c) Any person infringing against this by-law shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.

(6) No person shall promote or organize any hui or Maori
meeting to be held within any Maori settlement without
having first obtained the consent of the Maori Council or
village committee thereto. Any person offending against
this part of the by-law shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding £5.

SCHEDULE.

FORM A.

To (Name and Address):
Greeting: You are requested to cleanse or cause your
house to be cleansed within days after service of
this notice upon you, and you are warned that if after such
service you refuse or neglect within the time specified to
comply with this notice you will be liable to a fine not
exceeding £1.

Dated the day of , 19 .

[SEAL.]
Chairman (or Clerk) of Council.
(or Village Committee).

FORM B.

Hawker’s License.

Know all men that , a hawker, is duly
licensed to sell goods in the kaingas of the
District for one year from the date hereof.

Given under the Seal of the Maori Council for the
Maori District, the day of
, 19 .

[SEAL.]
Chairman (or Clerk) of the Council.

FORM C.

Billiard License.

Know all men that , of, is
duly licensed to keep a billiard-room at
for twelve months from the date hereof, subject to the
provisions of the by-laws of the Council.

Given under the Seal of the Maori Council for the
Maori District, the day of
, 19 .

[SEAL.]
Chairman (or Clerk) of the Council.

The above by-laws were passed at a meeting of the Maori
Council for the Matatua Maori District held at Matatua
on the 12th day of February, 1938, and are given under
the Seal of the said Council.

TEIHI PAERATA HAWIKI,
Chairman.

[L.S.]

Nga Paero o te Kaunihera Maori o te Takiwa o Matatua i
raro i te Ture Kaunihera Maori, 1900, me te Ture mo te
Ora, 1920, kua whakaaetia.

Tari o te Minita Maori,
Poneke, 25 Hune, 1941.

TENEI ka whakaaturia ko His Excellency te Kawana-
Tianara kua pai ki ti whakaae i nga paero e whai
ake nei i mahia e te Kaunihera Maori o te Takiwa o Matatua i
raro i nga tikanga o tekiona 16 o te Ture Kaunihera Maori,
1900.

H. G. R. MASON,
Mo te Minita Maori.

Kua Whakaaetia—

C. L. N. NEWALL, Kawana-Tianara.

TE KAUNIHERA MAORI O TE TAKIWA MAORI O
MATATUA.

NGA PAERO.

TENEI te Kaunihera Maori o te Takiwa Maori o Matatua
i whakaturia i raro i te Ture Kaunihera Maori, 1900,
me ona menemana me te Ture o te Ora ka hanga i enei paero
e whai ake nei me timata te whaimana o aua paero a te wa
e whakaaetia ai e te Kawana-Tianara, me te panuitanga o
aua mea i roto i te Gazette.

WHAKAMARAMA.

I roto i enei paero, mehemea ia kaore e taupatupatu ana
ki nga kupu e whai ake nei, a mehemea kaore i motuhake
te takoto a etahi atu whakamaramatanga, koia enei o ratou
tikanga:

“Taua Ture” tona tikanga ko te Ture Kaunihera Maori,
1900, me ona menemana me te Ture o te Ora, 1920.

“Te Kaunihera” tona tikanga ko te Kaunihera Maori o
te Takiwa Maori o Matatua i whakaturia i raro i
aua Ture.

“Komiti” ara “Komiti Marae” tona tikanga ko te
Komiti Marae o tetahi kainga Maori i whakaturia
e te Kaunihera i raro i nga tikanga o aua Ture.

“Takiwa” tona tikanga ko te Takiwa Maori o Matatua
i panuitia e te Kawana-Tianara i raro i aua Ture.

“Taone Maori” tona tikanga he Taone Maori i whakaturia
i raro i te Ture Taone Maori, 1910.

“Whakatakotoria” tona tikanga i whakatakotoria e nga
tikanga whakahaere i hangaia i raro i aua Ture,
e enei paero ranei.