Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 18, 7 September 1881, Page 155

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1881, pages 1116, 1132. 1133, and 1135.) Inspector of Weights and Measures Appointed, Marlborough, etc. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 17th August, 1881. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Nicholas Kiely to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures for the Counties of Sounds and Marlborough, and the Boroughs of Picton and Blenheim, vice Sergeant R. Saunderson, deceased. Thomas Dick.

Oyster-bed at Oyster Bay, Tory Channel, Closed.

(1.5.) Arthur Gordon, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas by “The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1866,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation in the Neiv Zealand Gazette, declare any natural oyster-bed to be closed against dredging for any period to be stated in such Proclamation : And whereas it is expedient that the natural oyster-bed at Oyster Bay, in Tory Channel, should be temporarily closed : Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the natural oyster-bed at Oyster Bay, Tory Channel, the boundaries whereof are described in the Schedule hereto, shall be closed against dredging for a period of two years from the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. Schedule. All that area comprising about 250 acres, situate at Tory Channel, Queen Charlotte Sound, and being a bay called Oyster Bay. Commencing at a point south-west of Motukina Point, and following high-water mark along the shore of Oyster Bay to Motukina Point; thence by a right line to the place of commencement. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Tice-Admiral of the same ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. Wm. Rolleston, Minister of Lands. God save the Queen!

Hares not to be deemed Game in Hawke’s Bay District. Arthur Gordon, Governor. In exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that hares shall cease to come within the operation of the said Act within the District of Hawke’s Bay, as defined in a notification under the said Act, dated the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and published in the A lew Zealand Gazette of the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. Thomas Dick.

Clerk of Courts Appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, Ist September, 1881. His Excellency the Governor lias been pleased to appoint Constable Michael Joyce to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Hampden, vice F„ H. Ibbetson, transferred;

Constable William Bulford to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Raglan, and Clerk of the Licensing Courts for the Districts of Raglan and Kawhia, from the 16th June last, vice J. S. Master, Esq.; and Constable Nicholas Cleary to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts at Te Arolia, vice E. J. Burgess, Esq. Thomas Dick.