JULY 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2919

Officers exempted from the Provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of July, 1914.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section four of the Public Service Act, 1912, it is enacted that nothing in that Act shall apply to any officer or class of officers to whom or to which, on the recommendation of and for special reasons assigned by the Commissioner, the Governor in Council declares that the said Act shall not apply:
And whereas the Commissioner has recommended that the said Act should not apply to the officers or class of officers described in the Schedule hereto for the special reasons assigned by him:
Now, therefore, 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 declare that nothing in the Public Service Act, 1912, shall apply to the officer or class of officers described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
NAME OR CLASS OF OFFICERS.
NAVAL officers and men in the employment of the New Zealand Government.

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

Directing Sale of Railway Land under the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twentieth day of July, 1914.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the thirtieth section of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any public work, is not required for such public work, the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions set forth in the said Act:
And whereas the piece of land described in the Schedule hereto has been, inter alia, taken for the purposes of the Kaipara-Waikato Railway by a Proclamation dated the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 73, of the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, a copy whereof was duly deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland:
And whereas the said piece of land is not now required for the purposes of the said Kaipara-Waikato Railway, and the Minister of Railways has recommended that this Order in Council should be issued directing such parcel of land to be sold:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and direct the sale of the said land.

SCHEDULE.
Approximate Area of the Piece of Land.
Being Portion of
Situated in Survey District of
Situated in Borough of
A. R. P.
0 0 5'41 Railway reserve (S.O. 17368, blue)
XVI Waitemata Mt. Albert.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 21429, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon edged green.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Regulations prescribing Matters required to be prescribed by Naval Defence Act, 1913.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of July, 1914.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section twenty-five of the Naval Defence Act, 1913 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby make the regulations set out in the Schedule hereto relating to the New Zealand Naval Forces; and I do hereby declare that such regulations shall have effect as from the fifteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

SCHEDULE.

1. THE examinations required to be prescribed by section 5 of the said Act shall be those laid down in the King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the time being in force, until such time as further regulations under the provisions of the said section may be prescribed.
2. (1.) The conditions of appointment of active service warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and petty officers shall be as laid down in the King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the time being in force and as obtain in the King's Naval Forces.
   (2.) The seniority of officers in their respective ranks shall be the same as that obtaining in the King's Naval Forces.
3. Unless and until it shall be otherwise prescribed by regulations under the said Act, the ages for the compulsory retirement of officers shall be the same as obtain in the King's Naval Forces, and the ages for the compulsory retirement of members of the Naval Forces other than officers shall be as follows, viz.:—
   Chief petty officers and petty officers .. 55 years.
   Others .. .. .. .. .. 50 ,,
4. (1.) The period of enlistment shall be for a term of seven years from date of enlistment, or from the age of eighteen years if enlistment takes place before that age.
   (2.) Any person enlisting under the age of eighteen years shall agree to serve until and for seven years after he has reached the age of eighteen years.
5. The prescribed person other than a Justice of the Peace before whom the oath of allegiance shall be taken may be any commissioned officer serving in the New Zealand Naval Forces.
6. The period of liability for service in the New Zealand Royal Naval Reserve shall be five years.
7. The drill, training, and inspection to which the members of the Naval Forces other than the New Zealand Royal Naval Reserve shall be subject shall be such as are ordered from time to time by the officer in command of the fleet, ship, or establishment in which such members are serving.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Regulations under Naval Defence Act, 1913, re Discipline of and Uniforms to be worn by Officers and Men of New Zealand Naval Forces.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of July, 1914.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by section twenty-five of the Naval Defence Act, 1913, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of