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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

SCHEDULE.
22. THE following hours of attendance shall be observed at telephone exchanges, according to the number of paying subscribers connected therewith :—

Subscribers. Hours.
a.m. p.m.
1 to 50 (inclusive) ... ... ... 9 to 5
51 to 100 ,, ... ... 8 to 8
101 to 125 ,, ... ... 8 to 10
126 to 150 ,, ... ... 8 to midnight.
151 and over : Open continuously if at any time not less than two-thirds of the total number of subscribers express in writing, addressed to the Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, their desire that the telephone exchange should be so open. Such expression as aforesaid shall be deemed to be operative until reversed by an expression of the desire of at least two-thirds of the subscribers that the hours observed be from 8 a.m. to midnight.

22A. Subscribers holding business connections with an exchange open continuously shall be charged therefor at the rate of £7 per annum, and private subscribers at the rate of £5 per annum; or, if two-thirds of the total number of subscribers at any time express in writing, addressed to the Secretary, their desire in that behalf, each subscriber shall be charged at the rate of £6 per annum. Such expression as aforesaid shall be deemed to be operative until reversed by an expression of the desire of at least two-thirds of the subscribers that the annual rates be £7 and £5 respectively.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Taumarunui Borough Council Loan of £21,849.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of June, 1911.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Taumarunui Borough Council lately proposed to raise a loan of twenty-one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, for the purpose of supplying the borough with water, of providing the borough with a system of drainage and sewage, of forming and metalling roads within the borough, and of acquiring land for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them : And whereas certain irregularities or defects have occurred in the procedure to obtain such loan—firstly, inasmuch as the newspaper notices required to be given by section eight of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, did not specify the proposed security or the provision for repayment of the loan as required by subsection (c) of the said section eight; and, secondly, inasmuch as the time limited by the Valuer-General for lodging objections to the valuations of the properties of the ratepayers had not expired when the poll of ratepayers was taken upon the proposal for the loan aforesaid : And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularities or defects, and it is expedient to validate the aforesaid proceedings :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and section seven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1910, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the said public notifications, and doth hereby order and declare that the poll of the ratepayers hereinbefore recited shall be taken to be as valid as though the valuations of the properties of the ratepayers had been finally determined prior to the taking of such poll : And His Excellency the Governor, with such advice and consent as aforesaid, doth further order and declare that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

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

Validating Voting-paper used in connection with Poll of Electors for Special Loan.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of June, 1911.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE JAMES CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Council of the Borough of Temuka lately proposed to raise a special loan of fourteen thousand pounds for the purpose of undertaking and establishing a gravitation high-pressure water-supply for the Borough of Temuka for fire-prevention purposes and for supply to ratepayers : And whereas, in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act, 1909, and the several Acts amending the same respectively, a poll of the electors (other than those enrolled upon a residential qualification) of the said borough was taken on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, at which the said proposal was duly carried : And whereas doubts have arisen as to the form of the voting-paper used at the said poll and the public notifications of the said proposal being regular and in accordance with the provisions of the said Acts : And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled, and it is expedient to validate such voting-paper and the public notifications of the said proposal, and the proceedings taken thereon :

Now, therefore, 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Acts, doth hereby declare that the voting-paper used at the taking of the said poll of electors and the public notifications of the said proposal shall be deemed and taken to be as valid to all intents and purposes as though the same were regular in form and in accordance with the provisions of the said Acts. And, further, that no proceedings taken in relation to the use of the said voting-paper or to the public notifications of the said proposal, or consequent thereon, shall be deemed to be insufficient or irregular by reason only of the invalidity or informality of such voting-paper or public notifications of the said proposal.

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

Land temporarily reserved for a Public Recreation-ground in the Southland Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Southland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for a public recreation-ground.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being part of Lot 235, portion of Original Section 7, Block II, Mataura Hundred. Bounded towards the north-east by other part of Lot 235, 748·8 links; towards the south-east by parts of Lot 251, 703·3 links; towards the south-west by the Invercargill–Edendale Road, 680·2 links; and towards the north-west by other part of said Lot 235, 700 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less : as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1404/15, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.