Mar. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 791

Land in Block XV., Kawakawa Survey District, taken for a Road-approach to a Railway.

(l.s.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road-approach to a railway-station:

And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land for the purposes hereinafter specified have been observed and performed:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and “The Public Works Act, 1903,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the construction of a road-approach to the Scoria Flat Station, on the Kawakawa-Grahamtown Railway.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 20626, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured sepia.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Minister for Public Works.

God save the King!

Declaring Road in Block IV., Tengawai, Mackenzie County, to be a Government Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of March, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the road through Rural Section 11596, Block IV., Tengawai, described in the Schedule hereto, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a Government road.

SCHEDULE.

All that road in the Canterbury Land District, commencing from the northern bank of the Little Opawa River, and proceeding in a northerly direction to its junction with the Railway Reserve and Burke’s Pass Road at the north-western corner of Block IV., Tengawai, Mackenzie County, a distance of 42 chains or thereabouts; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 5243, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, thereon coloured green.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Regulations for the Conduct of Public Business.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of February, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN exercise of all powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the conduct of public business.

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations shall apply to all officers and clerks in the public service under whatever Act appointed, and whether permanently or temporarily employed.

2. In no case shall leave of absence be granted except by the Minister in charge of the Department, and on application as prescribed by the “Regulations for the Conduct of Public Business” published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 5, of the 23rd January, 1873.

3. The period for which leave may be granted at any one time shall not exceed fourteen days in ordinary cases, and three weeks in special cases. In no case shall it exceed one month, except for illness or other pressing necessity as provided by section 27 of “The Civil Service Act, 1866.”

4. Nothing in these regulations shall affect the powers of the Governor under section 28 of “The Civil Service Act, 1866.”

5. All existing regulations as to leave of absence (including clauses 42 to 44 of the regulations made under “The Post and Telegraph Classification Act, 1890,” and gazetted on the 23rd February, 1891) are hereby modified in so far as they are inconsistent with these regulations.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Reduced Postage for Newspapers to United Kingdom.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this third day of March, 1904.

Present:

The Honourable Sir J. G. Ward presiding in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the tenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventeenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three, rules and regulations were made and rates of postage fixed, under the authority of “The Post Office Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), for the transmission of, inter alia, newspapers through the post for places within New Zealand and beyond seas: And whereas it is desirable to alter the rates of postage payable on newspapers posted in New Zealand for places beyond seas 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 and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the Schedule to the aforesaid Order in Council in so far as the said Schedule prescribes the rates of postage to be paid for newspapers despatched to the United Kingdom, and doth hereby order and declare that the rates of postage payable within the colony on newspapers despatched to the United Kingdom shall be those set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order that the said rates of postage shall have effect on and from the date hereof.

SCHEDULE.

Reduced Newspaper-postage for the United Kingdom.

The rate of postage on newspapers for the United Kingdom shall be 1d. for each newspaper, irrespective of weight, but subject to the following conditions as to despatch:—

If under 8 oz. prepaid 1d. .. Sent by first available route.
If over 8 oz. prepaid 1d. .. Sent by direct steamer only.
If prepaid less than 1d. .. Surcharged at printed-paper rates, and sent by direct steamer only.
If wholly unpaid .. .. Detained and sent to the Dead-letter Office,