EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XL, Issue 26, 30 June 1915, Page 453

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From Gazette, 1915, pages 2119, 2121, 2123, and 2124.) Extending Close Season for Oysters between Albatross Point and the Urenui Stream. LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-first day of June, 1915. Present : His Excellency the Governor in Council. WHEREAS it is enacted by the fifth section of the Fisheries Act, 1908, that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council make regulations for, amongst other things, prescribing a close season for oysters for a term not exceeding three years, and for further extending such close season : And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, a regulation was made prescribing a close season for oysters for a term of three years from the date of the order within all the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand lying between Albatross Point on the north and the mouth of the Urenui Stream on the south : And whereas it is desirable to extend such close season : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the

hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations

REGULATIONS. 1. The close season for oysters within all the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand lying between Albatross Point on the north and the mouth of the Urenui Stream on the south, which was made by the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the 22nd July, 1912, is hereby extended until the 22nd July, 1917. 2. Any person taking oysters within the area mentioned in clause 1 hereof during such close season is liable to a fine of not less than £1 and not more than £2O. J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring certain Land in the Hawera Survey District to be a Sanctuary for Imported and Native Game. LIVERPOOL, Governor. PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Animals Protection Act, and that no imported or native game shall be taken or killed within the said area.

SCHEDULE. All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing about 2,500 acres, being the properties of Messrs. Larcom Brothers, Thomas Winks, James Baker, and Heathcote Livingstone, comprising Sections 5,7, 8,9, 11, 12, 13, and 14, Block 111, Hawera Survey District. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. E. H. D. BELL, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Declaring Manukau Oyster-fishery. LIVERPOOL, Governor. WHEREAS by Warrant dated the eleventh day of June, gkone thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 42, of the thirteenth day of that month, the bays, estuaries, and tidal waters of Manukau Harbour, situated inside a straight line drawn from the summit of Paratutu on the North Head to the lighthouse on the South Head of that harbour, were declared to be a fishery under the name of “ The Manukau Oyster-fishery ” : And whereas by section forty of the Fisheries Act, 1908, it is enacted that the may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, declare that any oyster-fishery shall be set apart for the purposes of the said section—that is, that it shall be set apart as an oyster-fishery in which the Minister may employ persons for the purpose of taking oysters : Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G., M.V.0., the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, do hereby declare and set apart the Manukau Oyster-fishery to be an oyster-fishery for the purposes of section forty of the Fisheries Act, 1908. As witness the hand, of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. W. H. HERRIES, Minister of Marine.

Inspector of Factories appointed. Department of Labour, Wellington, 21st June, 1915. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable Joseph Keane to be an Inspector under the Factories Act, 1908. The appointment is dated the 14th day of June, 1915. W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Labour.