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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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sections seven and thirteen of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), for the purposes therein set forth :

And whereas it is expedient to amend and extend those regulations :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said sections seven and thirteen, 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 make the following additional and amended regulations as to the election of members of Harbour Boards by the electors of combined districts, by the owners or part owners of ships, and by the payers of harbour dues.

REGULATIONS.

1. REGULATIONS 1, 7, 23, and 26 of the said regulations of the 27th February, 1911, are hereby revoked, and the following regulations substituted in lieu thereof : Provided that such revocation shall not affect any matter or thing already done under the said regulations, but such matter or thing shall be deemed to have been done under the said regulations as amended by these regulations :—

ELECTIONS BY THE ELECTORS OF COMBINED DISTRICTS.

2. Subject to the express provisions of the said regulations and these regulations, where one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the electors of a combined district under section 7 of the said Act, the provisions of sections 5 to 16, 18 to 39, and 45 to 54, inclusive, of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, shall apply to the election of those members.

3. The poll shall close throughout the combined district at the hour at which it closes in the district of the principal local authority for an election in that district.

GENERAL AS TO ELECTIONS BY THE OWNERS OF SHIPS AND THE PAYERS OF DUES.

• 4. Nominations in pursuance of regulation 22 of the said regulations shall be signed by two persons being either electors whose names appear on the roll of electors qualified to vote at the election in respect of which the member or members are nominated, or else persons entitled to vote on behalf of such electors.

5. Where harbour dues have been paid by two or more persons jointly, or where any ship is owned by more than one person, the one of such persons to vote in respect of such payment or ownership shall be appointed in writing. Such appointment may be made in the firm-name or in the name under which the business of those persons is carried on, by any person authorized or entitled to sign that name.

6. Any appointment as aforesaid or by any corporate body under subsection (5) of section 13 may be general in terms, and until revoked shall apply to any election thereafter held under the said Act. Such appointment shall be produced for inspection when any claim to nominate a candidate or to vote at an election is made.

H. D. GROCOTT,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

The Civil Service Act, 1908.—Civil Service Senior Examination.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of March, 1911.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Civil Service Act, 1908, the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion, doth, in respect of the regulations made by Order in Council on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine, make the amendments set forth in the Schedule hereto ; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

SCHEDULE.

CLAUSE 7.—Delete the whole of clause 7, and insert in lieu thereof the words:—

“7. The following Schedule indicates the extent to which the choice of subjects from Group II is limited in the case of candidates in the service of certain Departments.

“No candidate in the service of any Department or branch of a Department will be deemed to have passed the examination unless he has passed in the subjects prescribed below as compulsory for that Department or branch :—

H. D. GROCOTT,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Town of Reefton, Nelson Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not ; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred