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8. The Chief Medical and Health Officer may from time to time, with the approval of the Eesident Commissioner, make regulations as to any of the following matters : — (a.) Eegulating the admission and discharge of patients and other persons entitled to the benefits of the said hospital or any branch thereof: (b.) Maintaining order, discipline, decency, and cleanliness among the inmates of the said hospital or any branch thereof: (c.) Prescribing the duties of the officers, nurses, attendants, and servants of the said hospital or any branch thereof: (d.) Preventing trespass upon the premises or grounds of the said hospital or any branch thereof: (c.) Prohibiting the introduction of any specified articles into the said hospital or any branch thereof: (/.) Eegulating the grant of medical or surgical relief to persons not being inmates of the said hospital or any branch thereof : (g.) Prescribing the fees payable by any person under section 7 hereof: (h.) Generally making provision for all matters affecting the management, care, control, and superintendence of the said hospital or any branch thereof: (i.) Providing for the breach of any such regulation a fine not exceeding five pounds: No such regulation shall come into force until the same has been published in the Cook Islands Gazette. 9. The following are hereby repealed: The Hospital Board Act, No. 5, 1896; the Medical Officers Act, No. 8, 1898; and all regulations made under either of the said Acts. Passed this thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and eleven. S. Savage, Approved. Clerk to Council. J. Eman Smith, Eesident Commissioner. Assented to in the name and on behalf of His Majesty. 25th October, 1911. ' Islington, Governor.

ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE INSPECTION AND LICENSING OE PUBLIC BUILDINGS, No. 11. Owing to the number of moving-picture entertainments now being given, and with a view of preventing the springing-up of unregulated billiard-rooms and other undesirable classes of entertainment, the following Ordinance was passed. Pictures showing cow-boy incidents and indiscriminate shooting would perhaps have no ill effect on the European mind, but, in my opinion, may have a very different effect on the Native mind. J. Eman Smith, Eesident Commissioner.

Federal Ordinance No. 36.—An Ordinance to provide por the Inspection and Licensing of Buildings for Public Meetings, Entertainments, Billiards, etc. Be it enacted by the Federal Council of the Cook Islands as follows : — 1. The. Short Title of this Ordinance is the Public Buildings Inspection and Licensing Ordinance, 1912. 2. It shall not be lawful to use any building or part of a building for public meetings, or as an assembly-room, or as a theatre or music-hall or dancing-hall, or as a cinematograph or lantern showroom, or for any public performance or public amusement whatsoever, whether a charge is made for admission thereto or not, or as a public billiard-room, except upon the conditions hereinafter set forth. 3. The owner or occupier of any such building shall apply in writing to the Eesident Commissioner for a license, stating the situation and description of the building, the names of the owner and occupier, and the purpose for which it or any particular part thereof is to be used. 4. Such building shall be inspected by the Government Surveyor or some other person appointed by the Eesident Commissioner in that behalf, and, if satisfied upon his report that such building is secure and suitable for the purposes proposed, and that it has sufficient means of ventilation and of ingress and egress, the Eesident Commissioner shall issue to the applicant a license under his hand for a period not exceeding one year to the said building or any particular part thereof for the purpose stated in the application ; and such building or such part thereof may be used accordingly. 5. The fee for the issue of such license shall be the sum of one pound, and the Eesident Commissioner may refuse to issue such license until the said fee is duly paid. 6. No entertainment of any kind shall be held or given or game played in any licensed building on any Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day without the written consent of the Eesident Commissioner, and then only subject to such conditions in every respect as the Eesident Commissioner may impose. The Eesident Commissioner may exercise this power either generally or in any particular case or class of cases, and may delegate such power to any European Eesident Agent.