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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

Defining the Middle-line of a Further Portion of the Otago Central Railway (Cromwell Section).

[L.S.]
LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Otago Central Railway (hereinafter termed “the said railway”) is a railway the construction of which is authorized by the Public Works Act, 1908: And whereas it has been determined to construct and maintain a portion of the said railway known as the Cromwell Section;

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section one hundred and eighty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1908, and in exercise of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle-line of the said portion of railway shall be that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at or near a point in the railway reserve in the Township of Clyde marked 44 miles 60 chains on P.W.D. Plan 21542, and proceeding thence in a north-westerly and then north-easterly direction generally for a distance of 3 miles 60 chains, more or less, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands, &c.—viz., the said railway reserve and Crown land in the Township of Clyde, road reserve, and part of S.G.R. 221c, Block I, Leaning Rock Survey District; road reserve, Sections 107 and 118, S.G.R. 221d, Block II, Leaning Rock Survey District; and terminating at a point in the said S.G.R. 221d about 20 chains south of the most southerly point of Section 111 in Block II, Leaning Rock Survey District, marked 48 miles 40 chains, including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, tracks, lakes, rivers, streams, and watercourses: all in the Land District of Otago: as the same is delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 35937, 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 Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 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 tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amendment of Police Regulations.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this thirteenth day of July, 1914.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section fourteen of the Police Force Act, 1913, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations numbered one, three hundred and eight, four hundred and fifteen, and four hundred and seventeen of the regulations made on the eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, under the Police Force Act, 1908, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth hereunder, which said regulations shall form part of and be read together with the regulations hereinbefore referred to; and doth declare that such revocation and the regulations hereby made shall take effect on the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

REGULATIONS.

CONSTITUTION OF THE FORCE.

1. The present establishment of the New Zealand Police Force consists of the following ranks, viz.:
   Commissioner.
   Superintendents.
   Inspectors.
   Sub-Inspectors.
   Senior Sergeants (including Chief Detectives).
   Sergeants (including Detective Sergeants).
   Detectives.
   Constables.
   Sergeons.
   Matrons.

HOUSE ALLOWANCE.

308. In cases where married members of the Force, widowers with children, and unmarried constables are not provided with free quarters, house allowance may be granted them according to the scale laid down by circular. Any unmarried member of the Force who is the sole support of his mother, and who is residing with her out of barracks with the permission of the Commissioner, may also be granted house allowance on the approval of the Commissioner being first obtained in that behalf. A married man residing in barracks shall not be paid house allowance without the approval of the Commissioner, who may in exceptional cases grant an allowance, if satisfied that such man is supporting his wife and family in a proper manner, and for some good reason is unable to remove them to the place where he is stationed. No man whose wife is not a resident of New Zealand shall be granted house allowance.

PROMOTIONS.

415. An examination qualifying for promotion shall be held in the month of September in each year at each district headquarters, and such other place or places as the Commissioner may select; and it shall be carried out under the immediate supervision of a Superintendent or other commissioned officer, or any other person appointed in that behalf by the Commissioner.

416. No constable or detective shall be promoted to the rank of sergeant or detective sergeant unless he shall have passed the examination qualifying for such promotion; and no sergeant or detective sergeant shall be promoted to the rank of senior sergeant or chief detective unless he shall have passed the examination qualifying for promotion to the rank of senior sergeant; and no senior sergeant, chief detective, or other sergeant shall be promoted to the rank of Sub-Inspector unless he shall have passed the examination qualifying for promotion to the rank of Sub-Inspector. Provided that any sergeant, detective sergeant, detective, or constable may, without taking any of the other examinations, sit for the examination qualifying for the rank of Sub-Inspector, and if he pass or has passed such examination he shall be deemed to have passed all other examinations qualifying him for promotion to any other rank in the Force.

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

Appointing a Member of Assessment Court under the Valuation of Land Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this thirteenth day of July, 1914.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the Valuation of Land Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint the person mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be a member of the Assessment Court for the special district set opposite his name.

SCHEDULE.

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