REGULATIONS.

The regulations made by Order in Council on the 30th day of October, 1905, respecting free places in secondary schools and district high schools, are hereby amended as follows:—

1. In clause 2, paragraphs (b) and (d), by deleting the words “the secondary school,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “a free place.”

2. In clause 3, subclause (iii), by deleting all the words after the word “admit,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “subject to such other conditions, if any, as the governing body shall see fit, any free pupil qualified under (c) or (d).”

3. In clause 6, by adding the following words: “(iii.) The district high school shall give to each free pupil such instruction as is prescribed in the foregoing clause.”

4. In clause 10, by adding the following words: “(ii.) The secondary school or district high school shall give to each senior free pupil more advanced instruction in the secondary subjects named in clause 5 above.”

5. In clause 14, by adding the following words: “(ii.) Except as provided in clause 15 hereof, any junior or senior free pupil who has so forfeited his free place, or who has failed to complete two years' study while a free pupil at a secondary school or district high school, shall not be eligible for a junior or senior free place at a technical school, as the case may be; and vice versa any one who has forfeited a junior or senior free place at a technical school, or who has failed to complete two years' study while a free pupil, shall not be eligible for a junior or senior free place at a secondary school or district high school.”

6. In clause 15, by inserting after the word “school” and before the word “and,” and also after the word “school” and before the words “shall admit,” the words “or technical school.” Further, by adding the words “If any free pupil fails on account of illness to fulfil the conditions of his free place, or if any junior free pupil fails on account of illness to pass the examination for senior free places, his free place may, with the approval of the Minister, be continued for another year. The fact of illness must be proved by evidence satisfactory to the Inspector-General of Schools.”

7. In clause 18, by adding the following words: “or in clause 7, (a), hereof.”

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Letter-carriers serving Ten Years in Second Grade.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1906.

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 for the employment and promotion of, inter alia, letter-carriers of the Second Grade: And it is expedient to revoke one of such regulations and to make another in lieu thereof;

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 fourth subsection of regulation thirty-three in the Schedule to the aforesaid Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto for the same purposes; and doth order and declare that such substitute regulation shall be read as part of the hereinbefore mentioned regulations, and have effect on and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six.

SCHEDULE.

NON-CLERICAL DIVISION.

33. (4.) LETTER-CARRIERS, Second Grade, shall have served ten years in the Department or class before being eligible for promotion to the First Grade, subject also to the officer being reported as fully competent, that his conduct in all respects is satisfactory, that his duties have been well performed, and that the promotion is merited.

J. F. ANDREWS,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Order in Council licensing William Downes to use and occupy a Part of Foreshore in Whangaroa Harbour.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1906.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the thirteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 72, of the sixteenth day of August in the same year, His Excellency the Governor in Council did, inter alia, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883,” license William Downes, of Whangaroa, to use and occupy a part of the foreshore in Whangaroa Harbour for the purpose of constructing and maintaining thereon a boatshed in the position shown as number 17 on, and in accordance with, plan marked M.D. 2294, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, and upon and subject to the terms and conditions therein set forth:

And whereas the said William Downes desires that the said license should be revoked:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of all the powers enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby revoke and determine the said recited Order in Council of the thirteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred, so far as it relates to the said William Downes, but not further or otherwise.

J. F. ANDREWS,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Brownlee Domain.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1906.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section nine of “The Domain Boards Act, 1904” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, appoint any local authority to be the Domain Board having, subject to “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” control of any public domain:

And whereas by an Order in Council made under the provisions of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” on the thirtieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and five, the land described in the Schedule hereto was brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”:

And whereas it appears expedient to appoint a Domain Board to control the said domain:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby appoint

THE HAVELOCK TOWN BOARD

to be the Brownlee Domain Board, having control of the domain described in the said Schedule hereto for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the said Act; and doth hereby appoint Wednesday, the seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and six, at eight o'clock p.m., as the time when, and the office of the Havelock Town Board as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

BROWNLee DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres and 29 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 68, 69, and 70, Town of Havelock. Bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 71, 72, and 73; towards the east by Section 67; towards the south by Outram Street; and towards the west by Nicholson Street: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 50907, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

J. F. ANDREWS,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.