Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXV, Issue 26, 18 December 1901, Page 291

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1901, pages 2350 and 2366.) Oyster-beds for Exclusive Use of Natives. RANFURLY, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentyeighth day of November, 1901. Present: The Honourable W. C. Walker presiding in Council. WHEREAS it is enacted by the seventeenth section of “ The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” that the Governor may, by Order in Council, from time to time declare any bay, or portion of a bay, estuary, or tidal waters in the colony in the vicinity of any Native pa or village, to be an oyster-fishery where Natives exclusively may take oysters

for their own food at all times, irrespective of the provisions of the said Act: And whereas it is desirable that certain portions of the tidal waters of Manukau Harbour, in the vicinity of a Native pa or village, should be such an oyster-fishery: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbeforerecited power and authority, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the portions of the tidal waters of Manukau Harbour which are coloured red on plan marked M.D. 2490, which is deposited in the Office of the Marine Department at Wellington, shall be an oyster-fishery where Natives exclusively may take oysters for their own food, irrespective of the provisions of the said Act. ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Inspector of Factories appointed. Department of Labour, Wellington, 11th December, 1901. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Nixon Scott an Inspector under “ The Factories Act, 1901.” C. H. MILLS, For Minister of Labour.