XIV. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Dec., 1899. 
Department of Agriculture, 
Brisbane, 1st November, 1899. 
The following Regulations, ve the introduction of Stock, Dogs, Manures, Bones, and 
Hides from Queensland, are published for general information. 
J. V. CHATAWAY. 
[Eztract from New Zealand Gazette, 21st September, 1899.] 
REVOKING CERTAIN REGULATIONS UNDER “THE STOCK ACT, 1893,” AND 
3 PRESCRIBING OTHERS. 
Notice No. 562. 
Ranrurty, Governor. 
ORDER IN COUNCIL. 
At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of September, 1899. 
Present : 
His Excellency the Governor in Council. 
.Ly exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by ‘‘ The Stock Act, 1893” 
(hereinafter termed “The said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New 
Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth 
thereby revoke the Orders in Council, Notice No. 467, and Notice No. 488, made under the said 
Act, and respectively dated the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and 
‘ninety-six, and the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, prescribing 
the conditions under which Australasian stock and certain manures, &c., may be landed, and 
prohibiting the ititroduction of stock, &c., from Queensland and other Australasian Colonies, 
-and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following Regulations; and doth hereby declare that 
the same shall come into force and take effect on the first day of October, one thousand eight 
hundred and ninety-nine :— 
REGULATIONS. 
For the purposes of these Regulations the term ‘‘animal manures” shall mean manures 
quieras of or containing any portion of the carcass of any “stock” as defined in ‘‘The Stock 
ct, 1893. : 
1. The introduction into the Colony of New Zealand from the Colonies of Queensland, New 
South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia of all horses, cattle, sheep, swine, 
goats, deer, and other ruminants, and dogs, and also of fresh meat (with the exception of frozen - 
meat), bones, horns, hoofs, hair, hides, skins, offal, or other part of any such animals, and of all 
fittings which have been used in the transport of any such animals, is hereby absolutely prohibited, 
-except under the following conditions :— ; 
(a.) Horses and dogs (except from Queensland and Western Australia, which are prohibited) 
may be landed on production of a declaration and certificate in the form or to the 
effect contained in Form A in the Schedule hereto if found on inspection by a Customs 
officer or Inspector of Stock to be free from disease; but if the declaration and 
certificate he not produced such horses or dogs shall not be landed until the master or 
agent of the vessel and the owner of such horses or dogs shall have made a declaration 
as aforesaid, and shall have paid the Inspector examining them a fee of 5s. per head : 
Provided, however, that all dogs arriving from any Australasian Colony in which 
foreign dogs are quarantined at any other than a Government quarantine-ground shall 
be deemed and dealt with as foreign dogs, or as the Minister may direct. 
(v.) Cattle (except from Queensland and Western Australia, which are prohibited) may be 
landed on production of a declaration by the owner and a certificate by a veterinary 
surgeon in the form or to the effect contained in Form A in the Schedule hereto, 
subject to quarantine for a period of ninety days: : 
Provided, however, that vessels en route toa foreign port with Australasian horses, 
cattle, or sheep on board may call at the port of Wellington for coal, and while there 
remain at a distance of not less than half-a-mile from the shore, subject to the like 
conditions as are prescribed by Regulation No. 31 of the General Regulations under 
“The Stock Act, 1893,” dated the thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight 
hundred and ninety-three, with respect to foreign stock. , 
(c.) Sheep (except from Queensland and Western Australia, which are prohibited) may be 
landed on production of a declaration by the owner and a certificate by an Inspector 
of Stock in the form or to the effect contained in Form A in the Schedule hereto, 
subject to quarantine for a period of thirty days. : ( 
_(d.) Swine (except from Queensland and Western Australia, which are prohibited) may be 
landed on production of a declaration by the owner and a certificate by a veterinary 
surgeon in the form or to the effect contained in Form A in the Schedule hereto. 
Goats, deer, and other ruminants! (except from Queensland and Western Australia, 
which are prohibited) may be landed if for a zoological or acclimatisation society on 
production of a declaration by the owner and a certificate by a veterinary surgeon in 
the form or to the effect contained in Form A in the Schedule hereto, subject to a 
quarantine of sixty days. 
Should the declaration and certificate required be not produced, such cattle, sheep, 
swine, goats, deer, or other ruminants shall not be landed until the master or agent of 
the vessel and the owner of such stock, &c., shall have made a declaration as aforesaid, 
and shall have paid the Inspector examining them, in the case of cattle, swine, goats, 
&c., a fee of 10s. per head, and in the case of sheep a fee of 2s. 6d. per head, in addition 
to veterinary surgeon’s inspection ee 
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