JUNE 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1939

(3.) This system may be availed of during the ordinary hours for attendance of officers at the telegraph-office, provided that in the case of offices where officers are on duty until 10 p.m. telegrams may be telephoned up to that hour.

(4.) The charges for transmitting telegrams as above shall be as follows:—

At all offices where provision is made for the delivery of telegrams,—

For all telephoned messages, provided the telephone conversation does not exceed three minutes in duration—

For any one year, or portion of a year exceeding six months .. .. .. £ s. d.
1 0 0

For any period exceeding three months but not exceeding six months .. .. 0 10 0

For any period not exceeding three months 0 5 0

The annual subscription must be made to fall due on the 1st January, and must be renewed from that date.

For each separate transmission, if the telephone conversation does not exceed three minutes .. .. .. 0 0 3

For each additional three minutes or fraction thereof .. .. .. 0 0 3

Subscribers to a telephone exchange at a chief office, whose telegrams are addressed to a sub-office connected therewith, may have such telegrams transmitted by telephone from the sub-office through that exchange on payment of the fees prescribed above.

At offices where the delivery of telegrams is not provided for .. .. .. Free.

At offices not in charge of a permanent officer of the Post and Telegraph Department, the telephoning of telegrams over privately owned telephone lines connected with the office .. Free.

At places referred to in the two last preceding paragraphs the free service shall not extend beyond the transmission of fifty words at a time if the telephone is required for any other purpose.

When the fee is paid by time, one conversation may include two or more messages, including any referred to in the next succeeding subclause. The fee is to be affixed in stamps to a docket, which will be provided, and which must be delivered to the telegraph-office immediately after the message has been telephoned.

(5.) Telephone-exchange subscribers and owners of private lines connected with a telephone bureau who have signed the usual form of application may also telephone to any telegraph-office connected with a telephone exchange, during the ordinary hours of telegraph attendance, if the exchange is open, messages to be further transmitted as telegrams from the telegraph-office to the respective destinations of such messages, provided the usual cost of such telegrams is paid in addition to the rates prescribed above when applicable.

(6.) Prior to telephoning any such message within the limits of a town the sender shall reduce such message to writing, and, immediately after transmission, deliver the written message to the telegraph-office, with the charges affixed in stamps. Messages telephoned after 5 p.m. and before 8 p.m. must be handed in to the telegraph-office not later than 10 o'clock the following morning. To prevent duplication the word “Transmitted” must be written in a conspicuous place on the form after the message has been telephoned, otherwise the charge for a second transmission shall be incurred. In country places the same procedure must be followed, except that the written message must be delivered to the telegraph-office within a reasonable time.

(7.) The Department reserves the right to exclude any person from the privilege of sending or receiving telegrams by telephone under this system until any arrears of fees or charges which may be due are fully paid, and to demand a deposit before or at any time after registering any application.

(8.) The transcribed copies of messages telephoned by subscribers to telephone exchanges, or by private-line owners, will, so far as the Department is concerned, become the original telegrams, and the Department will not assume or be subject to any liability by reason or on account of any failure, delay, or mistake in or about the transmission, receipt, or delivery of any telegram under this system, from whatever cause the same may arise. Messages will only be received upon the understanding that the Department's counting and charging are accepted without question.

(9.) When the sender of a telegram desires that it be transmitted to the addressee by telephone, the sender shall pay a fee of 3d. for the telephoning, in addition to the prescribed rates for urgent or ordinary telegrams (as the case may be), and the words “To be telephoned” shall be inserted in the place reserved for such instructions. Thereupon such telegram, upon arrival at the telegraph-office of destination, shall be forthwith telephoned through the telephone exchange to the addressee, if such addressee is a subscriber to that exchange; and in other respects the provisions made for the transmission of telegrams to addressees through telephone exchanges at their own request shall, as far as applicable, apply to such telegram.

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

Opening Land in Hawke's Bay Land District for Sale or Selection.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Thursday, the seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—DANNEVIRKE COUNTY.—TAKAPAU SURVEY DISTRICT.—PART OF TE WHITIATARA BLOCK.

First-class Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £450, to be paid for in cash or in ten years by twenty half-yearly instalments of £29 2s. 9d. Total half-yearly payment under occupation with right of purchase, £52 12s. 9d.; under renewable lease, £47 18s. 9d. The buildings consist of dwellinghouse of ten rooms, woolshed, stable, fowlhouse, buggy-shed and three-bail cowshed combined, washhouse, and yards.

All good ploughable land, nearly all being natural clearing, in English and native grasses; well watered; 1,000 ft. above sea-level. Situated a mile and a quarter from Norsewood and four miles from Kopua Railway-station by good metalled roads.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Opening Lands in Wellington Land District for Sale or Selection.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Wednesday, the thirtieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at