Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXVI, Issue 7, 26 March 1902, Page 82

Miscellaneous Information.

Promotions.

The undermentioned constables to be sergeants from the 14th March, 1902:

Millar, Nathaniel, No. 335. Hanson, John, No. 354. Drake, Thomas Johnson, No. 385,

Rewards

The following amounts have been awarded by the Prisons Department for energy displayed in the capture of escaped prisoners from Wanganui and New Plymouth Gaols : Constables W. J. Campbell, No. 813, £5 ; H. Beattie, No. 538, £3; E. C. Hughes, No. 404, £2; G. C. Clouston, No. 926, £2; and A. E. S. Ward, No. 866, £2. (02/27.) The following amounts have been awarded to the Wellington police: Sergeant F. Cullen, No. 220, £3, and Constable J. Lyons, No. 984, £6, for arrest of absentees from H.M.S. “ Royal Arthur ” ; and Constable P. J. O’Hara, No. 983, £2, for arrest of absentees from H.M.S. “ Phcebe.” (02/92.)

Acting-Detective F. S. Cox, No. 714, and Constable J. C. Griffiths, No. 673, Wellington police, have been awarded £2 10s. each for services in obtaining the conviction of Richard A. Bruckard for sly-grog selling at Wellington. (02/269.)

Detective C. R. Broberg, No. 689, Wellington police, has been awarded £5 for services in obtaining the conviction of Wong Sow for sly-grog selling at Wellington. (02/423.) Constable J. Bree, No. 338, has been awarded £l, and Constables G. Scandrett, No. 998, and J. McClinchy, No. 999, £1 10s. each, for services in obtaining the conviction of Thomas Lee for sly-grog selling at Taihape. (02/543.)

“ Infant Life Protection Act, 1896.”

(Circular No. 9/02.) The following circular, addressed to Inspectors in charge of districts, is published for general information : _ Instances having recently come under my notice where licensees have taken a lump sum for the maintenance of infants received under the Act, and thereby evading the spirit if not the letter of “The Adoption of Children Act, 1893,” you will please cause all licensees to be informed that where such arrangement is contemplated the child will have to be adopted under the statute named, and not received under the Infant Life Protection Act. In reporting on all applications for new licenses or enlargements of existing licenses you will be good enough to state, in the space on Form No. 60b allotted for the names of infants to be received, the terms upon which the infants are to be received ; and when submitting the notioe of a child being received (Form No. 61), the same information is to be given in the fourth column (“From whom received ”). Forms containing the necessary alteration will be issued when the present stook is exhausted. J. B. Tunbridge, TTT Commissioner of Police. Wellington, 21th March, 1902. (02/541.)

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette. (From Gazette, 1902, pages 630 and 670.) Inspector of Factories appointed. Department of Labour, Wellington, 12th March, 1902. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Alexander McGilp, of Cambridge, to be an Inspector under “ The Factories Act, 1901.” WM. HALL-JONES, For Minister of Labour.

Extending the Close Season for Seals.

RANFURLY, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1902. Present: The Honourable W. C. Walker presiding in Council. WHEREAS by “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations (which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters and places specified therein) for prescribing, among other things, a close season for seals, and for extending any close season so prescribed : And whereas it is further provided by the said Act that every person who, during any close season for seals, takes any seals is liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, and in addition thereto is liable to a further penalty, not exceeding twenty pounds, in respect of every seal so taken: And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfour, the months of January, February, March, April, May, and June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, were prescribed a close season for seals : And whereas by Order in Council dated the nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one, the said close season for seals was extended up to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two : And whereas it is desirable to further extend such close season for seals : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth order that such regulations shall have force and effect throughout the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and brackish waters of the colony, and on all shores of such waters or any part thereof.

SCHEDULE.

Regulations. 1. The close season for seals prescribed by regulations made by Order in Council dated the 21st day of December, 1894, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 1, of the 4th day of January, 1895, and which was, by Order in Council dated the 19th day of April, 1901, extended up to the 30th day of June, 1902, is hereby further extended up to the 30th day of June, 1903. 2. Every person who, during the close season prescribed as aforesaid, takes any seal is liable to a penalty of not less than £25 nor more than £SOO, and in addition thereto is liable to a further penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £2O in respect of every seal so taken. The taking of seals means and includes the killing, catching, dredging for raising, or hunting of any seal, or any attempt so to do. 3. No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, consign for sale, buy for sale, or have in possession any seal, or any skins, oil, or blubber from any seal, in any manner in contravention of the said Act or of these regulations ; and every person so doing is liable for every such offence to a penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £2O. ALEX. WILLIS, Clerk of the Executive Council.