EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 30, 28 July 1909, Page 314

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From Gazette, 1909, pages 1889 and 1900.) Regulations for Licenses to take Seals. PLUNKET, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of July, 1909. Present : The Honourable James Carroll presiding in Council. WHEREAS it is provided by section forty-two of “ The Fisheries Act, 1908” (hereinafter called “the said Act ”), that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations for the purposes set forth in such sections:

And whereas it is desirable for the purposes of the said section to make the regulations hereinafter set forth : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations, namely : Regulations. !• Licenses to take seals may be issued in respect of the lands belonging to the Crown (including any lands below high-water mark) on the Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, and Bounty Islands respectively ; and one license may be issued for the Snares, Auckland, Antipodes, and Bounty Islands, and a separate license for Campbell Island. 2. The licenses shall be disposed of by public tender, and the licensees shall have the sole right, during the open season, to take seals on the islands included in their licenses. Licenses shall be for a period of ten years, without any right of renewal, and shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto.

3. No female seals shall be killed or taken

4. No bull seals under twelve months old shall be killed or taken, and a sufficient number of full-grown bulls shall be left for breeding purposes. 5. The licensee and his employees shall travel to and from the islands included in the license by a Government steamer, and all skins shall be brought away from the islands by such a steamer. The licensee shall pay seven shillings and sixpence a day for each passenger for saloon passages, and five shillings a day for each passenger for forecabin passages, and two pounds a ton for freight on stores taken to the islands and on skins brought therefrom. 6. The licensee shall pay a royalty of ten shillings on each fur-seal, and a royalty of one shilling on each hair-seal taken.

7. Tenderers shall state the sum per annum they will pay, in addition to the royalty, for the right to take seals. 8. Not more than 4,500 fur-seals and 4,500 hair-seals shall be taken by the licensee during the first year of his license on the Snares, Auckland, Antipodes, and Bounty Islands ; and not more than 500 fur-seals and 500 hair-seals shall be taken during the first year by the licensee on Campbell Island. In succeeding years the numbers that may be taken shall be fixed by the Minister, who shall have the right at any time to reduce the number that may be taken, and he, or any officer appointed by him, shall have power to regulate the number that may be taken on each island and from each rookery. Before the skins are shipped from the island on which they are taken any officer appointed by the Minister shall have the right to inspect them. 9. All skins taken in contravention of “The Fisheries Act, 1908,” or of the license shall be forfeited to the Crown, and the Minister may declare the license forfeited if the licensee commits a breach of the law or of the conditions of his license.

10. Skins which have been forfeited shall be sold by public auction, and the proceeds shall be paid into and form part of the Consolidated Fund.

11. The licensee and two sureties approved by the Minister shall enter into a bond for two thousand pounds in the case of the license for the Snares, Auckland, Antipodes,

and Bounty Islands, and for three hundred pounds in the case of the license for Campbell Island, for the due performance of the terms and conditions of the license and the several regulations affecting the same. In these regulations the term “ Minister ” means the Minister of Marine appointed under the provisions of “ The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE. Form of License. License to take Seals. > of , is hereby licensed to take seals on ime Islands during the prescribed open season for a period of years from the day of ,19 , subjeot to the provisions of “ The Fisheries Act, 1908’” and the regulations made thereunder as regards seals, and subject also to the following conditions, namely : (1.) The licensee shall pay to the Minister the sum of pounds per annum for the right to take seals, and a royalty of ten shillings for each furseal and one shilling for each hair-seal taken. (2.) The licensee shall not take more than furseals, nor more than hair-seals, during the first year of the license, and not a greater number during the succeeding years of the license than may be approved by the Minister or by an officer appointed by him for the purpose. J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Inspector of Factories appointed. Department of Labour, Wellington, 20th July, 1909. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Edgar Larkin to be an Inspector under “The Factories Act, 1908.” The appointment is dated the 19th day of July, 1909. J. A. MILLAR, Minister of Labour.

Clerks of Courts appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 20th July, 1909. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Edgar Larkin to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Greytown, from the 9th day of July, 1909, vice Constable H. D. Armour, transferred ; and Constable Hugh Douglas Armour to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Patea, from the 9th day of July, 1909, vice Constable M. O’Brien, retired. JOHN G. FINDLAY.