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fourteen years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the licensee shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the previous written consent of the Minister first obtained.

11. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the licensee six calendar months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the licensee in New Zealand.

12. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which the said wharf may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on his part.

13. In case the licensee shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them; or
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period of thirty days; or
    (3.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought under the operation of any Act for the time being in force relating to bankruptcy; or
    (4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 of these conditions,
    then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council and every right, power, or privilege may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the licensee or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the licensee, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

14. The construction of the wharf shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the licensee of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Telephone Bureau Charges.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of January, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two, regulations were made and charges fixed under the authority of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), inter alia, for the use of telephone bureaux; and it is desirable to alter and amend such regulations and charges in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers in this behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulations and charges included under the heading “Telephone Bureaux” in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make and prescribe the regulations and charges set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order that such substitute regulations and charges shall have effect on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

TELEPHONE BUREAUX.

1. A “TELEPHONE BUREAU” means any ordinary telegraph or telephone office which is mentioned as a bureau in the list of telegraph-offices published in the Post and Telegraph Guide for the time being, as well as any such bureau specifically constituted.

2. The following are the charges to be paid by the public for the use of Government telephones at a telephone bureau in the colony:—

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

4. Where the line used is over twenty-five miles long, the charges are 1s. for 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.

5. When subscribers are connected through an exchange to a bureau, or from a bureau to a subscriber, half the above rates will be charged if the applicant is a subscriber to the particular exchange through which it is desired to communicate.

6. When a message to the effect that any person is required at a telephone is sent to a bureau for delivery beyond the premises in which such bureau is situated, 3d. will be charged for delivery. These charges must be paid by the sender. Messages for addresses outside the ordinary delivery limits are subject to special charges for delivery, according to the extra expense thereby incurred.

7. Any one person may only use the wire for six minutes at a time—that is to say that if another person requires the wire, at the end of six minutes it must be given up. Should the wire not be asked for, then the person using it may continue to do so at tariff rate. On Sundays ordinary rates only are charged.

8. The following are the charges for the use of Government telephones for the purpose of conversing over long-distance wires on Sundays or at other times approved by the Commissioner, usually between midnight and 8 a.m.:—
   (a.) When the conversation takes place through exchanges which are open continuously, or through other exchanges or bureaux during the ordinary hours of attendance of switchboard or bureau attendants: For a period not exceeding six minutes, 2s. 6d.; and a further charge of 2s. 6d. for every additional period of six minutes or portion of six minutes.
   (b.) When special attendance of switchboard or bureau attendants out of ordinary hours of attendance is required, then for each switchboard or bureau attendant called upon to make the necessary wire-connections: For every hour or less, 2s. 6d., in addition to the charges set forth in subsection (a).

9. No free conversations on public service are permitted over long-distance circuits.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Time for holding First Elections and First Meeting, Weber County.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of January, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the twelfth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three, it was provided that Saturday, the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three, should be the day upon which the election of the first Council of the County of Weber should take place, and also that the first meeting of the said Council should be held at ten o’clock in the forenoon of Saturday, the seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, at the Road Board Office at Ti-tree Point: And whereas it is expedient to extend the time so allowed for the holding of the said election and also of the said meeting:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section three hundred and twenty-two of “The Counties Act, 1886,” and all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby extend until Wednesday, the eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, the time allowed by the aforesaid Proclamation for holding the election of the first Council of the said county, and do also hereby extend until ten o’clock in the forenoon of Saturday, the twenty-first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, the time allowed by the aforesaid Proclamation for holding the first meeting of the said Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council,