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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS.

A BUREAU station means any ordinary telegraph station connected by telephone with an exchange, and includes any station so connected.

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:—

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 three minutes, and a further charge of 6d. for every additional three minutes or portion of three minutes.

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

The above regulation as to time (three minutes) shall only apply to bureau stations within the limits of a town where an exchange is situated.

For bureau stations outside the limits of a town the time will be for the first six minutes, and every additional six minutes or fraction of six 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, except where the bureau station is an office open for the transmission of telegrams by means of telephone or Morse telegraph instruments, and is outside the limits of a town or city.

When a message to the effect 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 the limits described above are subject to special charges for delivery, according to the extra expense thereby incurred.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Motueka Subdivision exempted from Wool-branding under Section 67, “Sheep Act, 1890.”—Notice No. 314.

ONSLow, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of February, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, signed by a majority of the owners of sheep in the Motueka Subdivision of the Nelson Sheep District (representing the ownership of not less than two-thirds of the total number of sheep in the said subdivision), requesting that such subdivision may be exempted from the operation of section sixty-seven of “The Sheep Act, 1890:” And whereas it appears expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by “The Sheep Act, 1890” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the Motueka Subdivision of the Nelson Sheep District, as defined under the said Act, shall be exempt from the operation of section sixty-seven of the said Act; and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council shall come into force upon the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Time for Preparation of Roll under Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act extended, Grey County.

ONSLow, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of February, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the County Council of the Grey County having by accident failed to appoint a Valuer or Valuers for the purpose of determining the value of mining property in the Grey County, and the said Council having for a like reason failed to make the valuation of such property in the month of January last past, as required by section seven of “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” it is expedient to extend the time for making such appointment and preparing the said roll as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in order that the purpose and intent of “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” may have effect, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Rating Act, 1882,” which said Act is incorporated with the first above-mentioned Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the time for the appointment of a Valuer or Valuers, and for the preparation of the valuation-roll for the Grey County, under “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” so that such appointment shall be made and such roll prepared in and during the present month of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

ONSLow, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of not less than forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
UNSURVEYED SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Whakatane County.—Parish of Maiata.

Bounded towards the north-east generally by the Rangitaiki River, by Sections Nos. 100 and 101 of the Parish of Matata, again by the Rangitaiki River, by Section No. 102 of the Parish of Matata, and again by the Rangitaiki River; towards the south-east generally by Sections Nos. 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 78, and 77 of the Parish of Matata aforesaid; towards the south generally by Sections Nos. 76 and 75 of the same parish, and by the Awatipaku Stream; and towards the west generally by the Tarawera River to the point of commencement.

Swamp lands, situated near Matata, and lying between the Tarawera and Rangitaiki Rivers.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Vesting a Reserve in the Borough of Hamilton.

ONSLow, Governor.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is provided that the reserves to be made for any borough or town district under such section shall be made only in cases where no such reserves for the purpose of sections three, five, and six of “The Plans of Towns Regulation Act, 1875,” exist therein, or, if existing, do not equal or exceed the amount of reserves authorised to be made under such last-mentioned Act:

And whereas the existing reserves for the Borough of Hamilton do not equal the amount of reserves authorised to be made under “The Plans of Towns Regulation Act, 1875,” and it appears expedient to make the reserves hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the seventeenth section of “The Land Act, 1885,” and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare that the land enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby reserved for the purpose stated opposite to the description of such land in the second column hereto, for the benefit of the Borough of Hamilton, as constituted under the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.