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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

And whereas the Grey County Council has laid before the Governor a memorial, accompanied by a map, and also the statutory declaration, as required by the said Act :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a road ; and I do also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

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SCHEDULE.

All in the Westland Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING !

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Stopping a Government Road in Block XII, Kawakawa Survey District.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by paragraph (c) of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation publicly notified, stop or alter the course of any Government road or any part thereof :

And whereas the Government road described in the Schedule hereto is no longer required for the purposes of a road :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim as stopped the road in Kawakawa Survey District described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District ; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING !

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Long-distance Telephone Communications.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty eighth day of October, 1912.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), inter alia, fixing and determining the charges to be levied for long-distance communications : And whereas it is expedient to amend and add to such regulations in the manner herein-after set forth :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulation numbered seven under the heading “Telephone Bureaux,” subheading “Long-distance Communications,” in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto ; and doth declare that the said regulation shall be read as part of the aforesaid regulations, and shall have effect on and after the date of publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

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SCHEDULE.

LONG-DISTANCE COMMUNICATIONS.

7. THE following are the charges for the use of Government telephones for the purpose of conversing over long-distance wires on Sundays or at other times approved by the Minister, usually between midnight and 8 a.m.

The applicant for a long-distance communication must in all cases make his own arrangements for the attendance of the person with whom he desires to communicate, and any permission required by telegraph for the joining through of any circuit to effect the communication must be obtained by a reply-paid message :—

(a.) When the conversation takes place through exchanges which are open continuously, or through other exchanges or bureaux during the ordinary hours of attendance of switchboard or bureau attendants : For a period not exceeding six minutes, 2s. 6d. ; and a further charge of 5d. for every additional minute or fraction thereof.

(b.) When the special attendance of an officer is required for the opening of any office for the purpose of obtaining a long-distance bureau communication, a reopening fee of 1s. must be paid by the person making the request.

If officers are required to remain in attendance for any time longer than that taken for the actual transmission of the communication, such extended attendance must be paid for as overtime at the rate fixed by the Department’s regulations.

(c.) When special attendance of switchboard or bureau attendants out of ordinary hours of attendance is required, then for each switchboard or bureau attendant called upon to make the necessary wire-connections : For every hour or less, 1s., in addition to the charges set forth in paragraph (a).

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