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3. For the purposes of this Ordinance all such moving-picture shows, theatrical performanc s, exhibitions, or entertainments, running of motor-cars, merry-go-rounds, billiard-tables, or other machine or instrument of whatsoever nature or kind shall be included in and referred to by the Words " performances or entertainments." 4. The application for a license shall be in writing addressed to the President of the Mangaia Island Council, and shall state the nature of the performance or entertainment the applicant proposes to give, the rate per head proposed to be charged, and period during which such performance or entertainment will be in operation on Mangaia Island. 5. Upon receipt ot any such application for a license the President of the Island Council shall convene a meeting of the said Council, at which he and at least six other members shall be present, and the said Council shall then consider the said application, and fix the amount of the license fee payable by the applicant, or may in its discretion refuse to grant such application. The applicant may attend such meeting personally or by agent. 6. The license foe shall be payable in advance, and shall be at the rate of not less than one pound nor more than twenty pounds per month of four weeks during the period of such performance or entertainment. 7. .All such license fees shall be paid into and become part of the funds of the Mangaia Island Council, and shall be expended upon public works in the said Island. 8. The said Council may at any time cancel any license issued under this Ordinance should it be found necessary in the interests of the public so to do, and in any such case shall not be liable to any action by the licensee for- damages. 9. The provisions of the Public Buildings Inspection and Licensing Ordinance, 1912 (No. 36), shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the Island of Mangaia, and be read together with this Ordinance. 10. Any person refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance shall, be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and any apparatus, machines, instruments, or other goods of or belonging to such person may be seized and detained by the said Council until such person shall have paid the license fee fixed by such Council, or until such person shall leave the Island, in which event all the goods or articles so seized and detained shall be returned to such person upon payment by him of any expense incurred by reason of such seizure and detention ; and the said Council shall not be liable for any damage or injury to such apparatus, machines, instruments, or other goods so seized and detained. Passed by the Mangaia Island Council this third day of April, nineteen hundred and fourteen. J. C. Cameron, Approved. President of the said Council. TI. W. NfoRTHCROFT, Resident Commissioner. Assented to in the name and on behalf of His Majesty. 17th August, 1914. Liverpool, Governor. Mangaia Island Ordinance (No. 5.) An Ordinance to encourage and control the Cultivation and Planting of their Lands by the Natives of Mangaia. Be it enacted' by the Mangaia Island Council: — .1. The Short Title of this Ordinance shall be the Planting of Lands Ordinance, 1914. 2. For the purposes of this Ordinance the words " Council " shall mean the Mangaia Island Council; " rubbish and undergrowth " shall mean and include all fallen and decayed fruit, leaves, and branches of any tree or shrub, and Weeds or undergrowth of any kind encumbering the soil; " landowner " shall mean any person holding or occupying land on Mangaia for himself as owner or as trustee for any other person or persons. 3. From and after the passing of this Ordinance it shall bo the duty of every landowner, and especially of every able-bodied man of the age of sixteen years and upwards, to cultivate and plant his lands and keep the same clear of all rubbish and undergrowth. 4. During each and every year every landowner shall plant or cause to be planted on his lands not less than forty coconut-trees and twenty banana-trcos and twenty orange-trees, in addition to a full supply of native foods such as taro, kumaras, yams, arrowroot, and the like : Provided always that if any landowner can satisfy the Council, or any person duly appointed in their behalf, that it is impracticable to plant the whole or any number of the above trees or native foods yearly on his lands the Council may grant such relief as may be necessary, while not freeing such landowner from his duty to keep his lands cultivated and clear of rubbish and undergrowth. 5. Coconuts shall be planted at a distance of not less than twenty-five feet one from the other ; bananas, at a distance of not less than ten feet one from another; oranges, at a distance of not less than fifteen feet one from another. Any plantation existing at the passing of this Ordinance may be-brought into conformity with this seotion as nearly as may be, should the Council deem it advisable to do so, by notice in Writing delivered to the owner thereof to proceed to make his plantation conform hereto by thinning out or planting up the trees as may be necessary. 6. Any landowner of Mangaia residing at Rarotonga or elsewhere may be called upon by the Council to cultivate or cause to be cultivated, and to plant or cause to be planted, his lands in accordance with this Ordinance 1 ,, and nothing shall relieve such landowner of his liabilities in this respect but a formal renunciation of his rights to such lands, made before and recorded by the Native Lands Titles Court of the Cook Islands, in favour of such of his blood relations resident on Mangaia, as he shall name.