3264 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 106

Native Land in Orahiri Survey District taken for Scenery-preservation Purposes.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is Native land and is required to be taken for scenery-preservation purposes:
And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:
And whereas a map of the said land has been prepared in duplicate, as required by the ninetieth section of "The Public Works Act, 1908":
Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by "The Public Works Act, 1908," and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby proclaim and declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, is hereby taken for scenery-preservation purposes as aforesaid; and the said land shall vest in His Majesty the King as from the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

SCHEDULE.
THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 24174, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Board of Appeal. — Regulations under "The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908."

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Orders in Council dated respectively the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, the twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred, the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, and the seventeenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five, certain regulations were made under "The Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1894," for matters respecting the Board of Appeal:
And whereas it is expedient to revoke such regulations, and to make others in lieu thereof in the manner hereinafter set forth:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by "The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908," and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations made by the Orders in Council hereinbefore mentioned, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations for the same purposes set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby declare that such regulations shall come into force on and from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS.

IN these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context, "the Board" means the Board of Appeal constituted under "The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908"; "Minister" means the Postmaster-General and Minister of Telegraphs; "Secretary" means the Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department.

Voting.

1. An alphabetical list of voters (hereinafter called "the electoral list"), comprising the officers of each branch of the Post and Telegraph Department, shall be prepared by the Secretary and retained at the General Post Office. Such list may be inspected prior to the date of election by officers entitled to vote.
2. All Postal officers shall be entitled to vote for a member of the Board to be elected by the Postal branch. Officers exclusively employed in Telegraph work, or connected with the Telegraph branch, shall be entitled to vote for a member of the Board to be elected by the Telegraph branch. In the case of officers employed at combined post and telegraph offices, and performing combined duties, the officers may elect with which branch they will vote, and their names shall be entered in the electoral list accordingly.
3. The electoral list shall be divided into two separate Divisions, to wit, the Postal Division, containing the names of all officers entitled to vote for a member of the Board to be elected by the Postal branch, and the Telegraph Division, containing the names of all officers entitled to vote for a member of the Board to be elected by the Telegraph branch, and no officer shall be entered in both Divisions.
4. If any officer employed at a combined post and telegraph office, and performing combined duties, fails to notify to the Returning Officer in writing, before the closing of the electoral list as hereinafter provided, the Division in which he desires to be entered, he shall be entered in such Division as the Returning Officer thinks fit.
5. For the purposes of each election the electoral list shall be closed at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on the forty-second day before the day of the election, and shall continue closed until the election is completed.
6. The election shall be held on a day to be appointed by the Returning Officer.
7. The Returning Officer for the election shall be the Chief Clerk, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington, or other person for the time being performing the duties of such Chief Clerk. There shall be two Scrutineers—namely, the Assistant Postmaster of the Chief Post Office, Wellington, and the Assistant Officer in Charge of the Telegraph Office, Wellington.
8. Candidates for election shall be nominated in writing by not less than three officers entitled to vote, and the nominations must reach the Returning Officer in Wellington not later than 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the forty-second day before the day of the election.
9. Should there be only one nomination for either branch, the officer nominated shall be declared to be duly elected.
10. Should there be more than one nomination for either branch, an election shall be held on the day so appointed; and after the date for receiving nominations is past, the Returning Officer shall cause ballot-papers to be printed and supplied to every officer entitled to vote, in the form or to the effect following:—

BALLOT-PAPER for Election of Member of Appeal Board by the Officers of the Postal [or, as the case may be, the Telegraph] Branch, under "The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908."

Candidates.
[Set out in alphabetical order the full names of all candidates for election by the branch].

Directions.—The voter can vote for only one candidate, and must strike out the names of all the candidates except the one voted for.
If the voter strikes out all the names, or omits to strike out all the names except one, the ballot-paper will be void.
After indicating the vote in manner aforesaid, the voter must fold up the ballot-paper so that the contents cannot be seen, and transmit it to the Returning Officer in the manner prescribed thereon.
11. The ballot-paper shall contain a list of all the persons nominated (and of no other persons), each name being inserted once only, and arranged alphabetically in the order of the candidates' surnames. Each paper shall have a