APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 965

the Pahiatua County: as the same is delineated on the plan marked R. 1024, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, coloured red and marked A B thereon.

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

Land taken for a Native School at Rangiawhia.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required for a certain public work, to wit, a Native school:

And whereas the Native owners have agreed to make a free gift of the said land to His Majesty the King, and it has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas by a certificate of title issued by the Native Land Court under the provisions of section seventeen of “The Native Lands Act, 1867,” bearing date the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, certain aboriginal natives, as in the said order mentioned, were declared to be the owners of the Whatuwhiwhi Block, within which the said land is situated:

And whereas, as required by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” a map has been prepared showing accurately the position and extent of the said land, and such map is hereto attached:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that the land shown upon the said map and described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the said Native school, and shall vest in His Majesty the King, as from the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and five.

SCHEDULE.

RANGIAWHIA NATIVE-SCHOOL SITE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan as described above, deposited in the Education Department, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

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

The Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association incorporated.—Notice No. 955.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby incorporate the members of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and such persons as shall hereafter be admitted members of the said association agreeably to the rules of the said association and the provisions of the said Act, into a body corporate under the said Act, under the style and title of “The Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association.”

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

Revoking the Prohibition of the Bringing of Diseased Potatoes into certain specified Portions of New Zealand from certain other Portions.—Notice No. 956.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by “The Orchard and Garden Pests Act, 1903,” 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 revoke the Orders in Council (made on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and four, and the sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and four, and the sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and five, respectively) prohibiting the bringing of diseased potatoes into certain specified portions of New Zealand from certain other portions thereof.

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

Educational Certificates of Telegraph Message-boys.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1905.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the same date, regulations were made under the authority of “The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890,” “The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act Amendment Act, 1891,” and “The Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), providing, inter alia, for the employment and promotion of telegraph message-boys: And it is expedient to amend such regulations in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the authority vested in him by the said Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulation numbered twenty-three in the Schedule to the aforementioned Order in Council, relating to the appointment and promotion of telegraph message-boys, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulation under the same number set forth in the Schedule hereto for the same purposes, and doth order that such regulation shall have effect on and after the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

TELEGRAPH MESSAGE-BOYS.

23. Telegraph message-boys must be not less than thirteen and not more than sixteen years of age. They must have passed the Fifth Standard of a school constituted under “The Education Act, 1904,” and produce certificates in writing of sound bodily health and good moral character. An educational certificate from any reputable private school will be accepted upon proof to the satisfaction of the Secretary, or of some person appointed by him in that behalf, that the applicant has passed an examination equivalent in all respects to that required for the Fifth Standard in a public school under the control of an Education Board, in accordance with the regulations in that behalf for the time being in force thereunder. Preference may, however, be given to boys who have passed a higher examination.

Message-boys shall be eligible for promotion to any branch of the Non-clerical Division for which they may be qualified, and shall have the same claim as a non-clerical officer and distributor to a cadetship in the Clerical Division, to be determined on the result of examinations. Any boy who may pass either the Senior or the Junior Civil Service Examination shall be given a prior claim to a cadetship.