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SALE OF GOODS AND PRODUCE ORDINANCE. Sir, — Cook Islands Administration, Rarotonga, 22nd October, 1912. I have the honour to forward herewith, in duplicate, for submission to His Excellency the Governor, an Ordinance passed by the Aitutaki Island Council and approved by me, the short title whereof is the Sale of Goods and Produce Ordinance, 1912. I have, Arc, Chas. E. MaoCormiok, Judge, Acting Resident Commissioner. Captain J. Eman Smith, Secretary, Cook and other Islands Administration, Wellington.

Sir, — Cook Islands Administration Department, Wellington, 7th March, 1913. Referring to your letter (AI/1912/434) of the 22nd October last, I have now the honour to return to you herewith Aitutaki Local Ordinance No. 4, the Sale of Goods and Produce Ordinance, 1912, which received the assent of His Excellency the Governor on the 24th January last. I also enclose six printed copies of the Ordinance in question. I have, Arc, F. G. Twiss, The Resident Commissioner, Rarotonga. Acting-Secretary for the Cook Islands.

Aitutaki Local Ordinance No. 4.—An Ordinance concerning the Buying and Selling of Goods or Produce. Whereas it has been found advisable to restrict the buying and selling of goods and produce to the confines of the various settlements at Aitutaki : Be it therefore enacted by the Island Council of Aitutaki as follows :— 1. The Short Title of this Ordinance is the Sale of Goods and Produce Ordinance, 1912. 2. From and after the publication of this Ordinance in the Cook Islands Gazette it shall not be lawful for any one either Native or European to buy, sell, or barter goods or produce at any place outside the boundaries of the various settlements. 3. All imported goods shall be sold on premises duly licensed under the Trading Licenses Ordinance, 1909, and all produce for sale shall be brought into the settlements and there disposed of; provided always and it is hereby expressly declared that nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent any sale or contract for the sale of growing crops of oranges, pineapples, coconuts, or any other fruit or produce to be gathered by the purchaser so long as such sale or contract for sale is made or entered into within the confines of a settlement. 4. Any one committing any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds (£o) for each offence Passed by the Aitutaki Island Council this seventeenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve. E. F. Hawk, Approved. President, Island Council. Chas. E. MacCormick, Judge, Acting Resident Commissioner. Assented to in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, 24th January, 1913. Liverpool, Governor.

TAKING LAND FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES. Sir, — Cook Islands Administration, Rarotonga, 28th October, 1912. I have the honour to forward herewith, for submission to His Excellency the Governor, the undermentioned draft Orders, in duplicate, taking land for public purposes :— (1.) Land at Aitutaki to link up the present two areas owned by the Crown there. (2.) Land at Oneroa, Mangaia, taken for a public cemetery. I have already reported in regard to these two areas. (3.) Land at Avarua, Rarotonga, being the area on which is situated the Fumigation Building. You are acquainted with the position of this matter. I have, &c, Chas. E. MacCormick, Judge, Acting Resident Commissioner. Captain J. Eman Smith, Secretary, Cook and other Islands Administration, Wellington.

Sir,— Cook Islands Administration Department, Wellington, 7th April, 1913. I have the honour to return to you herewith a notification duly signed by His Excellency the Governor taking land for Government Buildings at Aitutaki. I also enclose six printed copies of the notification. I have, Arc, F. G. Twiss, The. Resident Commissioner, Rarotonga. Acting-Secretary for the Cook Islands.