THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

34. Officers required to be acquainted with these
    Regulations.

All officers are required to acquaint themselves
with these Regulations. Officers at the head of the
various branches of each department are directed to
send in requisitions for copies of these Regulations
for the use of all officers under their control; and
they are hereby required and enjoined to post, and to
keep posted, a copy of these Regulations in all offices
and rooms to which officers of the Civil Service com-
monly have access, or in which they perform their
duties. Officers at the head of the various branches
of each department will be held responsible for the
enforcement of these Regulations, and are expressly
required to report to the responsible Minister every
breach or neglect of any regulation, and all other
acts of misconduct or defaults on the part of any
officer under their control.

35. These Regulations are in no way to affect
    duties, or responsibilities, or penalties now or here-
    after to be imposed by law.

Travelling Allowances.

The following Regulations respecting the issue of
travelling allowances to Public Officers travelling on
the public service, and entitled to travelling allowance,
will henceforward be in operation :—

1. Ministers and Judges of the Supreme Court to
   receive travelling allowance at the rate of two
   guineas per diem. Transport by land or sea to be
   provided by the Government. At sea, an allowance
   of five shillings only per diem will be sanctioned.

2. All other officers to receive travelling allowance
   at the daily rate of three shillings and sixpence for
   every one hundred pounds (£100) of the salary
   received by them respectively. No allowance, however,
   to be less than seven shillings and sixpence per diem.
   Transport by land or sea to be provided by Govern-
   ment. At sea, an allowance of two shillings and
   sixpence only per diem will be given.

3. The Government or the officer to have the
   option before the travelling commences, to arrange
   specially that, instead of receiving an allowance, the
   actual expenses reasonably incurred by such officer
   shall be paid by the Government on the production
   of proper vouchers. The Government to decide
   whether or not any expenses in respect of which a
   claim is made have been reasonably incurred.

4. No travelling allowance to be paid unless the
   officer is absent at night from his usual residence,
   but actual reasonable expenses will be paid.

5. No forage allowance will be given, or Govern-
   ment horses be lent, to officers in the Civil Service.
   This is not to apply to those Civil Servants for whom
   forage allowance has been specially appropriated by
   the Legislature, or to persons in the Militia Service.

6. When an officer is required to travel on public
   business not pertaining to his Department, a special
   rate of allowance will, if necessary, be fixed before
   the travelling commences.

7. Coroners' mileage allowance, and any allowance
   fixed by law, will remain as at present.

8. In the case of officers removed from one station
   to another, the actual reasonable travelling expenses
   incurred for themselves and their families will be
   paid upon the production of proper vouchers, except
   when that removal has been occasioned at their
   request, or in consequence of any fault on the part
   of the officer removed, or in course of promotion, in
   which case the Minister having control of the
   Department to which the officer is attached will
   decide what allowance, if any, should under the
   particular circumstances be granted.

REGULATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

Attendance.

1. The hours of attendance shall be from nine a.m.
   to five p.m., with an interval of one hour for dinner,
   except on Saturdays, when the hours shall be from
   nine a.m. to two p.m. continuously. If, during the
   Parliamentary Session, it may be found necessary to
   organize a staff of night hands, the hours of attend-
   ance shall be from six o'clock p.m. to two o'clock a.m.,
   one hour being allowed for supper.

2. Punctual attendance must be strictly observed.
   The Overseer (or, in his absence, the Sub-Overseer)
   will be required carefully to note late arrivals and
   absentees, and to report them to the Government
   Printer every morning by ten o'clock. Five minutes
   after the proper time will be considered late; when
   lateness in arriving extends to twenty minutes, one
   hour will be deducted.

Overtime.

3. If at any time during the sitting of Parliament,
   or in the recess, the attendance of any portion of the
   staff should be required earlier in the morning or
   later at night than usual, the extra time will be paid
   for as overtime, according to the following scale :—
   Overseer and Sub-Overseer, 2s. per hour; Readers,
   2s. per hour; Compositors, Pressmen, Machinist,
   and Engine Driver, 1s. 8d. per hour; Assistants, 1s.
   per hour.

Absence.

4. Any person who shall absent himself from the
   office, must, not later than the following day, report
   in writing the cause of his absence; and if such
   absence be caused by sickness, and extend beyond
   two days, he must then forward a medical certi-
   ficate.

Sickness.

5. In cases of sickness, the Government Printer
   may, on receiving a certificate signed by a legally
   qualified medical practitioner, declaring the inability
   of any person to discharge his duties, grant to such
   person, for a period of three months, salary at the
   following rate:—For the first month, full salary;
   after the first month, half salary.

6. The period over which the above payments may
   extend shall not exceed three months in any one
   year; but, in the event of prolonged sickness, the
   Government Printer may bring any such special case
   under the notice of the Minister, should he consider
   such a course necessary.

7. Any person guilty of practising imposition on
   the plea of sickness, shall be subject to instant dis-
   missal; or, at the discretion of the Government
   Printer, to such other punishment as he may deem
   proper to inflict.

8. In cases of sickness the Government Printer
   may appoint one or more visitors, and may also
   require a medical certificate as often as he deems it
   necessary.

Leave of Absence.

9. Leave of absence for a period of one week in
   each year may be granted to every person during the
   recess, or at such time as may be deemed most
   convenient.

Qualification.

10. The privileges contained in the foregoing
    regulations, in respect to sickness and leave of
    absence, shall apply only to those who have been
    continuously employed in the department for two
    years or more.