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Kaikoura Star, Volume XXII, Issue 35, 11 March 1902, Page 5

COUNTY OF KAIKOURA. TENDERS FOR WORKS. Contract No. 29. Lowering high place on the Greenburn Cutting, near Green Hills. Contract No. 30. Metalling on the Main South Road in three (3) sections. Specifications to be seen at the ■Court House on and after Monday, 10th inst. Works will be shown on Wednesday, 12th, commencing at the bottom of the Green burn Cutting at 11 a.m. Tenders addressed to the Chairman, and endorsed Contract No. 29 or 30 respectively, must be lodged in the Clerk’s letter box before 10 a.m. on Saturday, 15th inst. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. . CALEB SMITH. County Clerk. March 4th, 1902. E. R - riIHE NEXT SITTING of the JL Magistrate’s Court for the District of Kaikoura will be holden on Tuesday, the 25th day of March instant, at 3 p.m. .ANDREW MORGAN Clerk of Court. The Magistrate’s Office, Kaikoura, 25th Feb., 1902. Tenders Required IpOR the Erection of Wire-net- . ting along the boundary fence of Swyncombe land. Particulars at Star office or from the Manager, Swyncombe. e. R PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, CLAUSE 26. VXTHENEVER in any house any •VV person is found to be sick of any Infectious Disease, or any sickness the symptoms of which raise a reasonable suspicion that it may be an Infectious Disease, the following provisions shall apply (1.) Upon the day on which the occupier of the house becomes aware of the nature of the disease of which the patient is sick or is suspected to be sick he shall give notice thereof to the District Health Officer. (2.) Such notice shall be in the form numbered one in the Third Schedule hereto. (3.) If the occupier fails or neglects to duly give such notice he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. (4.) The medical practitioner who attends the patient, and the chemist who supplies medicine or drugs for such patient, shall, upon the day on which they respectively become aware of the nature of the disease or suspected disease, give notice thereof to the occupier, and also to the District Health Officer. (5.) Such notice shall be in the form numbered two in the Third Schedule hereto. (6.) If the medical practitioner or chemist fails or neglects to duly give such notice to the District Health Officer he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and, on conviction, the convicting Court may also, if the disease is a dangerous infectious disease, suspend him from practice or business for any period not exceeding six months. (7.) During the period of suspension the practitioner shall be deemed not to be a medical practitioner, and the chemist shall be deemed not to be a registered pharmaceutical chemist. (8.) Any notice under this section may be given by post, and shall be exempt from postage if the envelope is marked ‘ Notice under the Public Health Act.’ In accordance with instructions from the Public Health Department the above clause is in future to be strictly enforced, as the law directs. W. ANDERSON. Acting District Health Officer, For Marlborough and the Sounds.