NEW ZEALAND.

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XVL DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1872. No. 803.

[SPECIAL GAZETTE.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Marine Act 1867" it is enacted that the Governor shall from time to time make and issue Quarantine Regulations, to be in force within any port or ports of the Colony, provided that all such Regulations shall, before coming into operation, be published in the New Zealand Gazette and the Gazette of the Province to which the same shall relate:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand doth, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in exercise of all powers enabling him in this behalf, make the following Quarantine Regulations; to be in force in all the ports of the Colony, and to be read with and form part of the Harbour and Quarantine Regulations, published in the New Zealand Gazettes, dated 25th June 1868, and 20th September 1869 respectively:—

1. The Health Officer for any port shall have power to place or declare to be in quarantine any vessel arriving at such port from Honolulu, whether or not such vessel may have previously to such arrival called or touched at any other port or ports in New Zealand; and thereupon such vessel shall be deemed to be in quarantine within the meaning of the said regulations, and to be subject thereto and to the following regulations, although such Health Officer may not find that sickness exists or has recently been on board.

2. Such Health Officer shall forthwith report to the Board of Health of the port, whenever he places any such vessel in quarantine under the last regulation.

3. The Board of Health for such port, or a majority of them, shall have authority to detain any such vessel as aforesaid in quarantine, or the crew and passengers thereof in lazaret, until such measures as they may have prescribed for cleansing, purifying and disinfecting such vessel and the passengers and crew thereof, and the goods therein have been carried out.

Henry D. Pitt, Capt. R.A.,
Private Secretary.

(For Clerk of the Executive Council).

OTAGO ROADS ORDINANCE 1871.

Alteration of Polling Places.

WHEREAS by notice and appointment dated the eighteenth day of June, 1872, published in Otago Provincial Gazette, the polling places for the respective districts and subdivisions of districts therein mentioned, under and by virtue of the “Otago Roads Ordinance 1871,” were duly fixed and appointed until the same shall be altered or varied: And whereas it is expedient that the polling places in the districts and subdivisions of districts after-mentioned should be altered:

Now therefore I, William Alexander Tolmie, Esquire, Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby revoke the appointment of the polling places for the districts and subdivisions of districts after-mentioned made by the notice and appointment dated the 18th day of June 1872, and in lieu thereof do hereby appoint the places after-mentioned to be the polling places for the respective districts and subdivisions of districts after-mentioned at which the poll shall be taken at all elections...