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candidates to be elected, the Returning Officer shall himself record such additional vote.

(21.) In the event of any dispute or question arising as to the meaning of the regulations, or any portion thereof, for the conduct of elections of Appeal Boards, the same shall be referred to the Minister for determination, and his decision shall be final and conclusive.

74. (1.) Appeals shall be heard at such convenient times and places as the Board may determine.

(2.) Members of the Board shall be paid such reasonable travelling-expenses, and be accorded such facilities for attending the sittings of the Board, as the Minister may determine.

(3.) Where notice of appeal has been lodged, and a person, whether a party to such appeal or not, shall—

Be resident more than twenty miles from the place of the sittings of the Board where the hearing of the appeal is appointed to be held, or

Be about to go and remain beyond such distance until after the hearing—

the party desiring to use the evidence of himself or of such person at the hearing may give notice of such desire to the Minister. Such notice shall specify the name of every person intended to be examined.

(4.) Immediately upon receiving such notice the Minister may appoint a Stipendiary Magistrate to take such evidence, or may fix a time and place for such examination, and shall transmit a copy of such notice of appointment, with a memorandum of the time and place appointed for the taking of such examination, to the Stipendiary Magistrate.

(5.) Notice of the intention to hold such examination, and of the time and place of holding the same, shall forthwith be given to the party against whom such evidence is intended to be used.

(6.) Notices to witnesses to attend such examination, and to produce books, papers, documents, and writings, may issue, and the procedure of such examination shall be the same in all respects as if such examination were the hearing of an appeal, except as may be otherwise prescribed by regulations from time to time.

(7.) All evidence given at such examination shall be taken on oath, or, if the member so desires, on affirmation, reduced to writing, and signed by the Magistrate before whom it is taken, and by the persons giving such evidence respectively, and such writing shall be forwarded by the Magistrate to the Chairman of the Appeal Board, together with all books, documents, papers, writings, and things admitted in evidence, or copies thereof respectively.

(8.) The costs of such examination, together with the allowances for witnesses, shall be fixed by the Magistrate on the same scale as is allowed by the Appeal Board.

(9.) Such costs and allowances, as fixed by the Magistrate, will be dealt with by the Board as if the same had been incurred at the hearing.

(10.) Every person giving evidence at such examination shall be deemed to have given his evidence in such appeal; and in any appeal it shall be sufficient to allege that such examination was held under the provisions of “The Government Railways Department Classification Act, 1901,” and the evidence of any person given at such examination, and having been signed by the Magistrate, shall be judicially noticed by the Appeal Board without any further proof.

General.

75. Nothing in these regulations contained shall affect the probationary conditions subject to which members or persons were admitted into the service of the Department prior to the date of these regulations.

76. All departmental regulations and instructions in force at the coming into operation of these regulations are hereby revoked or modified in so far as they are in conflict with these regulations.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Approving certain Companies under Section 22 of “The Administration Act, 1879.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of February, 1906.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section twenty-two of “The Administration Act, 1879,” that the security of any incorporated company or guarantee society approved by the Governor in Council may be accepted by the Court as the security required to be given by any administrator or other person appointed to administer an estate under the above-mentioned Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the before-recited power and authority, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve for the purpose above mentioned of each of the following incorporated companies, namely:—

The Commercial Union Assurance Company (Limited)

and

The South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of February, 1906.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Kauri-gum Industry Amendment Act, 1902” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may by Order in Council declare that land set apart under “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the principal Act”), as a kauri-gum reserve, and which is no longer required for the purpose of gum-digging, shall be no longer subject to the principal Act, and shall thereafter be dealt with by the Land Board as ordinary Crown land; provided that such Order in Council shall only be issued in pursuance of a resolution of the Land Board, supported by such independent evidence as the Governor in Council deems necessary:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Hakaru No. 1 Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operation of the principal Act, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the portion of the Hakaru No. 1 Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall be no longer subject to the provisions of the principal Act, and shall hereafter be dealt with by the Land Board as ordinary Crown land.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 73 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 148A and 150A of the Parish of Kaiwaka, Otamatea County, and forming part of the Hakaru No. 1 Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated the 21st day of August, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 71, of the 24th day of August, 1899, page 1555. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 129 of the Parish of Kaiwaka; towards the east by the Hakaru River; towards the south-west by the north-eastern portion of Section No. 11 of the Parish of Kaiwaka aforesaid; and towards the west by Section No. 149A of the said parish and by a public road; and towards the north-west by a public road: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 37704/294, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of February, 1906.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Kauri-gum Industry Amendment Act, 1902” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may by Order in Council declare that land set apart under “The Kauri-gum Industry