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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Fee for examination.
7. A fee of three guineas shall be paid by the applicant to
the examiner as his remuneration previous to the examina-
tion.

Examination.
8. The examination shall be partly by written questions,
to be answered in writing, and partly oral.

Report of Examiner.
9. At the close of the examination the examiner shall for-
ward to the Registrar the written questions and answers,
with a report by himself on the result of the examination,
and a statement of his opinion as to the qualification of
the applicant. The Registrar, if satisfied thereon, and that
the prescribed fee has been paid, may register the applicant
as a Patent Agent, and grant him a certificate of registra-
tion.

Correction of register.
10. The Registrar shall from time to time insert in the
register any alteration which may come to his knowledge in
the name or address of any registered person, and erase from
the register the name of any such person who is dead.

Agents ceasing to act.
11. The Registrar may erase from the register the name of
any registered person who has ceased to practise as a Patent
Agent, but not (save as hereinafter provided) without the
consent of that person. For the purposes of this rule, the
Registrar may send by post to a registered person to his re-
gistered address a notice inquiring whether or not he has
ceased to practise or has changed his residence, and, if the
Registrar does not within three months after sending the
notice receive an answer thereto from the said person, he may,
within fourteen days after the expiration of the three months,
send him by post, to his registered address, another notice
referring to the first notice, and stating that no answer has
been received by the Registrar; and if the Registrar, either
before the second notice is sent, receives the first notice back
from the dead-letter office of the Postmaster-General, or
receives the second notice back from that office, or does not
within three months after sending the second notice receive
any answer thereto from the said person, that person shall,
for the purposes of this rule, be deemed to have ceased to
practise, and his name may be erased from the register
accordingly.

Provided that the name of any such person applying to be
again registered, may, if the Registrar think fit, be so regis-
tered on payment of the prescribed fee, but without such
person being required to pass another examination.

Disqualification.
12. If any registered person shall be convicted in New
Zealand or elsewhere of an offence which, if committed in
New Zealand, would be a felony or misdemeanour, or, having
been entitled to practise as a solicitor, shall have ceased to
be so entitled, the Registrar may erase from the register the
name of such person: Provided that the name of any person
becoming again entitled to practise as a solicitor may be
registered again on payment of the usual registration-fee.

Evidence.
13. In the execution of his duties under these regulations
the Registrar shall in each case act on such evidence as shall
appear to him sufficient.

Commencement of regulations.
14. These regulations shall commence and come into
operation on the 1st day of January, 1890.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations and Charges for Use of Telephones.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourth
day of November, 1889.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE E. MITCHELSON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by
"The Electric Lines Act, 1884," and of all other powers
enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, doth, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, hereby
prescribe the fees and charges contained in the Schedule
hereto in relation to the use of the Government telephones
wherever established in this colony in connection with the
telephone exchanges and otherwise; and doth further order
and declare that such regulations shall take effect on and
after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety, and shall, on and from such last-mentioned date,
supersede all prior regulations made in relation to charges

for the use of telephones within the colony in connection
with telephone exchanges and bureau stations, and for
private wires.

SCHEDULE.

GOVERNMENT TELEPHONE EXCHANGES.

THE charge per annum, payable quarterly in advance,
in respect of the hire of any telephone instrument connected
with a Government telephone exchange shall be as follows:-

Per annum,
payable quarterly
in advance.
£ s. d.

To each of the first one hundred subscribers
to any new exchange: For a single wire to
the end of the first year, commencing on
the 1st day of January, April, July, or
October after the date of connection
9 0 0
For every year following ..
8 0 0

To every subscriber after the first hundred to
any new exchange, and to every subscriber
to the exchanges already established: For
a single wire to the end of the first year,
commencing on the 1st day of January,
April, July, or October after the date of
connection
10 0 0
For every year following ..
8 0 0

For every additional wire required by one
subscriber, and from the date of connection
7 0 0

Where a subscriber to an exchange in one
provincial district applies for a connection
at an exchange in any other provincial
district in the colony, the charge for the same
will be as for a second connection, viz.
7 0 0

The above rates are for connections with a
telephone exchange of warehouses, stores, shops,
and business-places not more than half a mile
from the exchange, and of private residences
not more than one mile from the exchange.

For every additional mile or fraction thereof:
To the end of the first year, commencing
on the 1st day of January, April, July, or
October after the date of connection
1 0 0

Where any connection with an exchange is over three
miles in length, the applicant will be required to hold the
same for five years, and to give a special bond, to the satis-
faction of the Superintendent of Electric Lines, for the
purpose of guaranteeing the payment of all charges and
expenses incurred in relation to such connection.

If a connection with a telephone exchange necessitates
the erection of a new line of poles over the three miles, then
the additional charge for every mile after the third mile
will be at the rate of £2 10s. for every such mile or fraction
thereof.

In the event of such line being used for additional wires a
proportionate reduction will be made to the original sub-
scriber for every wire so erected, but in no case will the
reduction be more than £1 10s. per mile after the third mile
or fraction thereof.

BUREAU STATIONS.

A "bureau station" means any ordinary telegraph station
connected by telephone with an exchange.

The following are the charges to be paid by the public for
the use of Government telephones wherever established in
the colony at a bureau station in connection with an ex-
change :-

Where the line used is not more than six miles long, a
uniform charge of 6d. for the use of same for any period not
exceeding five minutes, and a further charge of 6d. for every
additional five minutes or portion of five minutes.

Where the line used is over six miles long, the charges are
1s. for the use of same for any period not exceeding five
minutes, and a further charge of 1s. for every additional five
minutes or portion of five minutes.

Messages telephoned by subscribers through an exchange
to a bureau station, or from a bureau station to a subscriber
by a subscriber, will be charged half the above rates; and
when a message that any person is required at the telephone
is delivered by the department from a bureau station, 3d.
will be charged for delivery within the ordinary circuits of
delivery. These charges must be paid by the sender.

Messages outside of the limits described above are subject
to special charges for delivery, according to the extra expense
thereby incurred.

PRIVATE WIRES.

Maintenance and Wayleave.

The charge for maintenance of each private line will be as
under, payable yearly in advance, viz.:-

For every mile or fraction of a mile, £1 per annum.

If the wire cannot be erected on any existing line, and
therefore entails the erection of a new line, then the main-