Nov. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1991

SPECIAL DAY-RATE FOR MORNING PAPERS.

From or to offices not reopening in the evening, telegrams not exceeding 300 words and lodged not later than 4.30 p.m.:

For each 100 words or fraction of 100 words .. 1 0

Every such telegram must have the words “Special day rate” in the instructions, and be lodged on the day next before the day of publication of the newspaper addressed; otherwise ordinary day-rates will be charged. Not more than one telegram for any paper will be accepted at any office on any one day at the above rates. This concession does not apply to sub-offices situated in a city or town where the central office reopens in the evening.

EVENING RATES.

Between the hours of 5 p.m. and 11 p.m.,—

For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words .. 0 6

Between the hours of 11 p.m. and midnight,—

For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words .. 0 8

After midnight, if kept open by special arrangement,—

For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words .. 1 0

EXCEPTIONS TO THE ABOVE SCALE OF CHARGES.

Evening newspapers publishing before 5 p.m. are allowed to receive at any period of the day of publication telegrams amounting in the aggregate to 1,000 words during the recess of Parliament and 1,500 words during the session at evening rates. 500 additional words are also allowed on the day the San Francisco mail reaches Auckland for telegrams containing news received by the mail steamer. When the San Francisco mail arrives at Auckland on Sunday, the 500 additional words are allowed on the day following.

During the session of Parliament, Press parliamentary reports are accepted until 1 a.m. at the 6d. rate, and between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. at the 8d. rate, for all offices open during these hours for Press messages from Wellington.

During the war in South Africa, evening newspapers will be allowed to receive 500 additional words on one day at evening rates from the United Press Association on the occasions on which the Association distributes the contents of letters received from its correspondents respecting experiences of the New Zealand Contingents in South Africa. No other than the special news named is to be included to make up the 500 words.

CABLE NEWS.

Press messages lodged at any telegraph-office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. repeating news received by cable from beyond the colony, and bearing the words “Cable news” in the instructions, are chargeable with the evening rates for Press messages if sent on the day of publication of the newspaper addressed. Every such message must be charged separately. Day-rates are payable on such messages if sent otherwise.

SUNDAYS.

Ordinary Telegrams.

For the first 12 words, or less, including address and signature .. .. .. .. 0 6

For every additional word .. .. .. 0 1

Urgent Telegrams.

For the first 12 words, or less, including address and signature .. .. .. .. 1 0

For every additional word .. .. .. 0 2

Press Telegrams.

Between 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m.:

For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words,—

Morning newspapers .. .. .. 0 8

Evening newspapers .. .. .. 1 0

If office kept open after 5.30 p.m., by special arrangement by or on behalf of a morning newspaper,—

For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words .. 1 0

STATUTORY HOLIDAYS.

New Year’s Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, and the birthdays of the Queen and the Prince of Wales, or any day substituted therefor:

Ordinary and urgent telegrams at the same rates as for week-days.

Press Telegrams:

Evening newspapers:—

Between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.,—

For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words (cable news telegrams excepted) .. .. 1 0

Morning newspapers:—

For the first 12 words or fraction of 12 words.. 0 6

Every additional word.. .. .. 0 0½

Morning and evening newspapers:—

Between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.,—

For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words .. 0 6

Between 11 p.m. and midnight,—

For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words .. 0 8

W. CROW,

Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” for the Election of Members of Boards by Contributory Local Authorities in Grouped Districts.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

ROBERT STOUT.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1885 Amendment Act, 1886,” it is provided that the Governor, by Order in Council, shall, before the month of November next ensuing, and at the same period in every third year thereafter, apportion the representation of the various contributory local authorities in any district on the Board of such district in the manner therein set forth:

And whereas it is necessary that regulations shall be made for the elections of members of the Boards of such districts by such contributory local authorities as are grouped together in terms of the above-mentioned section:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in him by section ninety-nine of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” doth hereby make and prescribe the regulations hereinafter set forth for the conduct of the said recited elections, and the proceedings incidental thereto, namely:—

REGULATIONS.

1. The local authorities named in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall have respectively the number of votes set opposite them in the second column of the said Schedule, and their representative or representatives shall meet at the time and place set opposite the names of such local authorities in the third and fourth columns of the said Schedule respectively to elect such member or members as have been apportioned to such local authorities by Order in Council of the tenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

2. The Presiding Officer to conduct the election in each case shall be the person named in the fifth column of the said Schedule, opposite the name of each local authority. Any local authority may, if it think fit, send only one representative to such election, and such representative shall then be entitled to exercise the full number of votes which such local authority is given by regulation one aforesaid.

3. Any local authority may appoint, by writing under the hand of the Chairman or Mayor, as the case may be, any person or persons residing at or near the place of meeting as aforesaid to be its representative or representatives at such meeting, and such representative or representatives shall be entitled to exercise the full number of votes which such local authority is given by regulation one.

4. In case any contributory local authority shall not send a representative to such election, the representative or representatives of the local authority or authorities present at the meeting called for such election shall elect the member or members which such local authorities together are entitled to have, and that either at the meeting then held, or at a subsequent meeting to be specially convened for the purpose by the Presiding Officer of such first-mentioned meeting.

5. The Presiding Officer at every meeting of local authorities as aforesaid shall make a return in writing to the Secretary of the Board to which any member has been elected, setting forth the names of the person or persons elected to serve as members of such Board. The Secretary shall thereupon notify the Inspector of Hospitals of the result of such election or elections for publication in the Gazette, and such publication shall be deemed to be prima facie evidence that the persons named therein were duly elected in terms of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885.”

6. In the event of the number of votes on each side at any election being equal, the Presiding Officer shall give a casting-vote.