May 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1667

10. A private line may be connected with a telephone-office at which there is no telephone exchange on the following conditions:—
    (a.) The line must be led into the office under the supervision of a departmental lineman to a lightning-guard, switch, and telephone. The owner will be charged with the lineman's time and expenses while engaged in the work.
    (b.) The telephone at the telephone-office must be of the bridging-bell pattern if there is more than one telephone on the line, but it may be a Edison-Bell telephone if there is only one telephone on the line. It is furnished, together with the fittings, at the expense of the owner of the private line.

11. When a private line is connected with a telephone-office in charge of a permanent officer of the Department a fee of £2 per annum will be charged for each subscriber on the private line, the service to be given being attendance for switching the private line to the bureau line, and the transmitting and receiving of telegrams on the private line. The usual bureau fees and the cost of the transmission of telegrams over the public line will also be chargeable.

12. Non-permanent Telephonists may fix a fee to be charged for their services. Approximately the charge is about £1 10s. per annum per telephone.

13. Where a telephone exchange has been established in a country town private lines may be connected with the same on the owners signing the prescribed form of application and paying the entrance fee of £1 and the charges set out in clause 15. Only one entrance fee is required for each line.

14. When a private line is joined up to a telephone-exchange connection, either through a subscriber's wire or direct to the exchange by a departmental wire not exceeding a mile in length, the following rates in addition to the entrance fee shall apply:—
    (a.) For private-residence connections—
    If one connection on the private line, £5 per annum.
    If more than one connection, either to the same or to different persons, £4 per annum for each connection.
    (b.) For business connections: The initial business rate in force at the exchange with which the connection is made. If there is more than one connection either to the same or to different persons on the private line, the business rate chargeable for each connection is reduced by £1.
    (c.) If a departmental line exceeding one mile in length has to be erected, payment of the usual mileage rates is charged to exchange subscribers for the extra distance, in addition to the charges under paragraphs (a) and (b). Payment for each connection is to be made on the basis of a division of the total amount due by the number of connections on the private line from time to time.

15. The Department supplies a telephone free of charge to each subscriber, and, where necessary, an earth-plate, and, in the case of a long line, a lightning-guard; but these remain the property of the Department, and are not installed or maintained by the Department except at the expense of the subscriber and when the Department can conveniently spare the services of a lineman. Neither does the Department maintain any part of the private line. The Department will, however, supply material for renewing batteries, and will also repair or replace a defective telephone if it is sent in to the telephone exchange by the subscriber. Otherwise such subscribers have all the privileges of ordinary subscribers.

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

Inspector under “The Scaffolding Inspection Act, 1906,” appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Scaffolding Inspection Act, 1906” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint Inspectors of Scaffolding to carry out the provisions of the said Act, and define the district within which each Inspector shall exercise his functions:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby appoint

HUGH GRESHAM

to be an Inspector of Scaffolding under the said Act, and do hereby declare that the district within which he shall exercise his functions shall comprise the Boroughs of the City of Auckland, Mount Eden, Parnell, Newmarket, Grey Lynn, Birkenhead, Devonport, and Onehunga, the Road Districts of Eden Terrace, Mount Albert, Arch Hill, Remuera, Epsom, and Ellerslie, the Town District of Otahuhu, and the Ridings of Northcote and Takapuna (Waitemata County).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. A. MILLAR.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of the said land contained in the title thereto may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing 250 acres, more or less, known as Section 31, Block I, Upper Waitara Survey District, situate in the Taranaki Land District, being the land comprised in a Crown grant dated the 7th day of October, 1884, registered in the Deeds Registry Office, at New Plymouth, as No. 16754, and containing the restriction that the said land shall be “inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1903,” it is enacted that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, or in any Crown grant or other instrument of title, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Board, remove any restriction on the alienation of land owned by Maoris: Provided that the decision of the Governor on any recommendation of the Board shall be given within six months from the date of the receipt of such recommendation:

And whereas the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, by a recommendation made and passed by the said Board on the twelfth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and received on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seven, recommended the Governor to remove and revoke the restrictions against alienation contained in the instrument of title of the block of land known as Section 3A, Block IV, Tikokino, so far as to permit the said land to be sold:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon and vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities me thereunto enabling, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board aforesaid, do hereby remove and revoke the restrictions now existing against the alienation of the land particularised and set out in the Schedule hereto, so far as to permit the same to be sold by public auction, at an upset price of £7 5s. per acre.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing 33 acres and 38 perches, more or less, being the land known as Section 3A, Block IV, Tikokino, situate in the Land District of Hawke's