May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2105

After the first twelve hours the rates as set out in the foregoing schedule of wharfage charges shall be payable for every week or part of a week that goods remain in the sheds.

19. No person shall remove goods from any wharf, pier, jetty, or landing-place without having previously paid the dues payable thereon.

20. In the absence of the consignee the wharfinger shall take delivery of all goods landed on the wharf, and shall place such goods in the wharf-shed, and shall keep same until payment to the Council of the expenses of such removal, wharfage, and storage dues as in By-laws Nos. 17 and 18 hereof provided for, together with any other charges due to the Council thereupon, and in default of payment may, in the manner and in the time provided in section 63 of the Harbours Act, 1908, sell the same, and may exercise on behalf of the Council all the powers contained in the said section 63; provided, however, that goods as mentioned in By-laws Nos. 25 and 27 shall not be stored in any wharf-shed.

21. If any goods, which in the opinion of the wharfinger it is not expedient to put in the wharf-shed, are stored on the wharf, then the owner of such goods shall pay storage for same at the same rate as mentioned in By-law No. 18.

22. If any cargo remains on any wharf for a longer period than forty-eight hours, or where such cargo in any way hinders the loading or unloading of any vessel, or is an impediment to the approaches, the wharfinger may have such cargo removed at the expense of the shipper, and in the case of inward cargo at the expense of the consignee or owner; provided that if any timber remains on any wharf for a longer period than twelve hours the wharfinger or other person in charge may have such timber removed at the expense of the shipper, consignee, or owner, as the case may be.

23. No timber, coal, produce, or cargo of any description shall be shipped or unshipped except at such time and places, and in such order or mode as may be directed and deemed expedient by the wharfinger for the proper working of any boat.

24. No person shall deposit any ballast, coal, coke, patent or other fuel on any wharf or in any shed without special permission of the wharfinger.

25. No goods or articles of any description which, in the opinion of the wharfinger, are likely to occasion damage to any wharf or shed, or anything for the time being on such wharf or in such shed, shall be discharged or landed on any such wharf or placed in any such shed.

26. No person shall place or leave upon any wharf or in any shed any vegetable or animal matter or goods which are in a state of decay or putrefaction. Any goods which are, in the opinion of the wharfinger, unfit to remain on wharf, or harmful to other goods stored on the wharf or in any shed, may be removed from the wharf or any shed by the wharfinger, and the consignee or owner shall upon demand, repay to the Council the cost of such removal, and also in addition the amount of any damage done by such goods to any other goods on such wharf or in such shed.

27. All explosives, kerosene, and all goods of a dangerous or inflammable character shall be removed by the owner, agent, or consignee immediately on being landed, and such owner, agent, or consignee failing to do so will be held responsible for any damage or loss that may accrue from any accident arising therefrom, in addition to the penalty provided for breach of these regulations, and the Council shall not be responsible for any damage or loss which may accrue to such goods.

SHIP’S WHARF DUES.

28. The following dues, tolls, and charges shall be paid for the use of each and every wharf that now is or may hereafter come under the jurisdiction of the Otamatea County Council, viz.:

On every vessel under 20 tons register lying alongside a wharf, for each day or part of a day .. .. .. .. 1 0

On every vessel under 20 tons register, for every day or part of a day that such vessel lies alongside a vessel lying at a wharf .. .. .. .. 0 6

On every vessel under 20 tons register undergoing repairs or fitting out alongside a wharf, or lying off a wharf with a line attached thereto, per day or part of a day .. .. .. .. 0 6

On every vessel of 20 tons register and upwards lying at a wharf, per ton per day or part of a day .. 0 0½

Minimum charge on every sailing-vessel of 20 tons register and upwards lying alongside a wharf, per day or part of a day .. .. .. .. 1 0

Minimum charge on every steamer of 20 tons register and upwards lying alongside a wharf, per day or part of a day .. .. .. .. 1 6

On every vessel of 20 tons register and upwards lying alongside a vessel at a wharf, or lying off a wharf with a line attached thereto, or undergoing repairs, per ton per day or part of a day .. .. .. 0 0½

Minimum charge for vessel last mentioned.. .. 0 6

PENALTIES.

29. If any person, firm, or company fails or refuses or neglects to do anything by these regulations required to be done, observed, or performed, or in any manner obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the doing of anything enjoined, required, or authorized to be done, or does anything prohibited by these regulations, shall in each and every case so offending be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.

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

Regulations for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, 1914.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Orders in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and the thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four, respectively, regulations were made under the authority of the Electric Lines Act, 1884, with respect to the service of notices by telegraph: And whereas it is desirable 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 vested in him by section 149 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, 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 said regulations so made as aforesaid, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth, and doth declare that these regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations the following words shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, unless the context requires a different construction:—

“The said Act” means the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908.

“Notice” includes all notices or documents or processes issued out of the Supreme Court which are ordered by any such Court, or a Judge thereof, to be served by telegraph, or which any such Court, or Judge, or any Registrar of the Supreme Court, authorizes to be so served, and any summons issued under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Acts for the time being in force by an Official Assignee or Deputy Assignee, and by him ordered or authorized to be so served.

“Transmitting officer” means the officer of the Telegraph Department who receives any notice for transmission by telegraph, and whose name and address have been gazetted in terms of section 152 of the said Act.

“Receiving officer” means the officer of the Telegraph Department to whom any notice is transmitted for service, and whose name and address have been gazetted in terms of section 152 of the said Act.

2. On the first receipt of any notice in a telegraph office for service in terms of section 150 of the said Act, such notice shall forthwith be transmitted to the receiving officer at the telegraph office in the place where the same is required to be served, and on receipt of such notice by such receiving officer he shall retransmit such message to the transmitting officer for verification.

3. On such notice being properly verified by the transmitting officer, and (if necessary) again transmitted to the receiving officer, the latter shall forthwith cause the same to be copied in duplicate on foolscap paper, and one of such copies shall be served on the person to whom the notice is addressed, the other of the said copies shall be retained in the telegraph office.

4. Upon such service being effected, the person serving such notice shall endorse upon the duplicate copy so retained a declaration of service in the form or to the effect contained in form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto.

5. Service shall in all cases be personal, and where such personal service cannot be effected, a special endorsement to