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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

be so posted in a stamped envelope as to reach him not later
than such time.

The envelope must bear on the outside the word “Voting-
paper.”

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My vote is hereby recorded as above, this day of
, 19 .

[Signature of Voter.]

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THIRD SCHEDULE.

DECLARATION.

I, [A. B.], Returning Officer for the Land Board [or
assistant to, or poll-clerk for, the Returning Officer for the
Land Board] [or scrutineer for C. D., a candidate
at the present election of a member of the Land
Board], do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will, to the
best of my skill and judgment, faithfully and impartially
perform the duties of my said office, and will not, directly or
indirectly, disclose any fact coming to my knowledge at such
election regarding the state of the poll before the final
declaration thereof by the Returning Officer, or make known
for which candidate any voter has voted.

A. B.,
Returning Officer [or as the case may be].

Declared and signed before me, at , this
day of , 19 .

E. F.,
Solicitor of the Supreme Court
[or Justice of the Peace].

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

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Regulations for Post-Office Savings-Banks.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
seventh day of February, 1913.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Orders in Council dated the
twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand
nine hundred and three, the second day of Sep-
tember, one thousand nine hundred and seven,
the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hun-
dred and eight, and the twentieth day of January,
one thousand nine hundred and nine, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh
day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three,
the fifth day of September, one thousand nine hun-
dred and seven, the sixteenth day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and eight, and the twenty-
eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred
and nine respectively, regulations were made under
the authority of the Acts therein recited for the
conduct of Post-Office Savings-Banks: And where-
as it is expedient to revoke such regulations and
to make others in lieu thereof:

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 Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, and of
all other powers 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 regulations made by the above-
mentioned Orders in Council, and in lieu thereof
doth make the regulations set forth in the Schedule
hereto; and doth order that the regulations
hereby made shall have effect from the date of the
publication of this Order in Council in the New
Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

PRELIMINARY.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Post-
   Office Savings-Bank Regulations, 1913.

2. In these regulations, unless the context other-
   wise requires,—

The expression “Savings-Bank business”
means the receipt of deposits at the Chief
Post Office and at other Savings-Bank
offices within each postal district, and the
repayment of such deposits, and all business
incidental to such receipt and repayment:

The expression “Savings-Bank office” means
a post-office at which Savings-Bank business
is transacted:

The expression “Savings-Bank year” means
the twelve months ending on the 31st day of
December in any year:

The expression “friendly, charitable, or pro-
vident society” means a friendly, charit-
able, or provident society legally registered
in the manner required by the Acts in force
relating to friendly, charitable, or pro-
dent societies, and includes a registered
branch:

Words importing the singular number include
the plural number, and conversely; and
words importing the masculine gender in-
clude females; and the words “Post
officer” mean the Postmaster of every
Savings-Bank office, as well as any officer
of the Post Office appointed to transact
Savings-Bank business.

The words “Chief Post-office” mean the
Post-office at Auckland, Blenheim, Christ-
church, Dunedin, Gisborne, Greymouth,
Hokitika, Invercargill, Napier, Nelson,
New Plymouth, Oamaru, Thames, Timaru,
Wanganui, Wellington, or Westport.

3. (1.) The following Post-offices shall be Savings-
   Bank offices:—

(a.) All post-offices which are Savings-Bank
offices at the date of the coming into
operation of these regulations.

(b.) All other post-offices which the Postmaster-
General may hereafter appoint to be
Savings-Bank offices.

(2.) The Postmaster-General may authorize and
direct any of his officers to transact Savings-Bank
business otherwise than at a post-office, and for the
purpose of these regulations any place so appointed
shall be included in the term “Savings-Bank
office.”

(3.) The Postmaster-General may at any time
direct that any Savings-Bank office shall cease to
be such.

(4.) Savings-Bank business shall be transacted
at a Savings-Bank office on such days and during
such hours as the Postmaster-General may direct.

AMOUNT OF DEPOSITS.

4. Deposits of one shilling, or of any number
   of shillings, or of pounds and shillings, shall be
   received from any depositor at the Post-Office
   Savings-Bank; but less than one shilling shall not
   be received, either by itself or as part of a larger
   sum, except in the case of Education Boards, School
   Committees, the manager of an industrial school
   in trust for an inmate, savings-banks under the
   Savings-banks Act, 1908, and legally constituted
   friendly, charitable, or provident societies, or of
   societies registered under the Trade-unions Act,
   1908, or the Industrial Conciliation and Arbi-
   tration Act, 1908, the Coal-mines Act, 1908, or