MAY 21.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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Earl of Liverpool, K.C.M.G., M.V.O., the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

ALPHEUS NORMAN HAYES

to be a member of the Oamaru Harbour Board to represent the Hakataramea Riding of the County of Waimate, the electors of that riding having on the last Wednesday in April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, failed to elect a member of the Board in accordance with the provisions of the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

F. M. B. FISHER.

Disallowing Part of By-laws made by Waimakariri Harbour Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the fiftieth section of the Harbours Act, 1908, that, within six months after the receipt of a copy of any by-law made by a Harbour Board has been acknowledged by the Minister, the Governor may disallow the same or any part thereof :

And whereas certain by-laws regarding harbour-improvement rates and storage rates were made and adopted by the Waimakariri Harbour Board at a special meeting of the Board held on the sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and the receipt thereof was acknowledged by the Minister on the fifth day of May in the same year :

And whereas it is desirable to disallow a part of such by-laws :

Now, therefore, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby disallow the following part of the said by-laws—that is to say, the following, viz. :—

“The word ‘wharf’ in any by-law shall, where consistent with the context, be taken to mean and include any unlet landing-place, foreshore, bank, or premises between the river embankment and the water’s edge of the Waimakariri River.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

F. M. B. FISHER.

Amendments and Additions to the Regulations under the Public Service Act, 1912.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred on him by the Public Service Act, 1912 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor in Council, doth hereby, in respect of the regulations made under the said Act on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and the amendments thereof, make the amendments shown in the Schedule hereto, and doth also make the additional regulations set forth in the said Schedule.

Such amendments and additional regulations shall have effect from and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

24A. The Commissioner may grant allowances to officers—
(a.) Performing special duties;
(b.) As instrument allowances.

SPECIAL LEAVE TO PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERS.

59A. The Commissioner may allow special leave to Engineers of the Public Works Department to attend a prescribed course of tuition not exceeding two years at the Canterbury College School of Engineering, subject to the undermentioned conditions :—
(a.) The Engineer must not be less than twenty-one years of age, nor more than thirty-five years. The maximum age to be reduced to thirty after the 1st January, 1916.
(b.) He must have served at least three years at practical work in the Public Works Department.
(c.) He must have passed the Public Service Senior Examination in all the subjects prescribed for Engineering Officers, or the combined Engineering Preliminary and Engineering Entrance Examination of the University of New Zealand.
(d.) His application must be approved by the Engineer-in-Chief or Chief Electrical Engineer, such approval to be contingent on satisfactory work and behaviour during his prior service in the Department.
(e.) On entering into an agreement the Department will pay the college fees and the cost of the necessary books, such payments to be refunded by the Engineer on demand should he not return to duty on completion of his college course, or should he within five years after his return leave the Department for any reason whatsoever, save sickness or injury, or dismissal through no fault of his own.