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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
revoke the regulation numbered seven, under the heading
“Special Messenger Service,” in the Schedule to the above-
recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth make the
regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth declare
that such regulation shall form part of the said regulations
made on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine
hundred and ten, and shall take effect from the date of
the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand
Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

7. WHEN several letters or packets are tendered by one sender
   for delivery at different addresses by the same messenger,
   or to different persons at the same address, a charge will be
   made at the rate of 1s. for the first hour and 6d. for each
   succeeding half-hour or fraction thereof, in addition to which
   a fixed fee of 1d. must be paid for each article above one.
   The number of articles for delivery by one messenger must
   not exceed ten. Their aggregate weight must not exceed
   15 lb. unless a special conveyance is paid for or a motor-
   cycle engaged; and for each packet over 1 lb. in weight an
   additional delivery fee of 3d. must be paid.

Where delivery can be effected by a messenger mounted
on a motor-cycle the fee shall be 2s. 6d. an hour or fraction
thereof, in addition to the fixed fee of 1d. for each article
above one and the additional delivery fee of 3d. for each
packet over 1 lb. in weight.

The charges mentioned in this regulation supersede the
ordinary charges for special messenger service.

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

State Guarantee of a Loan for £19,425 applied for by the
Havelock North Town Board for the Purposes of Sewerage,
Water, and Electric Lighting, and other Matters.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this third day of
August, 1914.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Havelock North Town Board has made
application to the Minister of Finance for a State
guarantee of a loan of nineteen thousand four hundred and
twenty-five pounds for the purposes of sewerage and drainage,
water-supply, electric lighting, and other matters in connec-
tion therewith, pursuant to section seventy-five of the Local
Bodies' Loans Act, 1913 :

And whereas the Minister of Finance is satisfied that a
special rate has been made sufficient to pay the interest,
sinking fund, and other charges payable in respect of the said
loan, and that the said Board is duly empowered to raise such
loan, and has taken all the necessary steps to obtain the same
as required by section seventy-nine of the said Act: And
whereas it appears expedient to grant the said application :

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, and in
exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the
Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, doth hereby guarantee the
said loan, subject to the provisions of Part IV of the Local
Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

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

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory
Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the
two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

ARTHUR JOHN NEWLING,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the
Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Opapa, is authorized to
take and receive statutory declarations under the two-
hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the
Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand this thirtieth day of July,
one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory
Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the
two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

KENNEDY FRANCIS COONEY,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the
Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Kerepehi, is authorized
to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-
hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the
Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand this thirty-first day of July, one
thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Additional Regulations made by the Public Service Commissioner.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon him
by the Public Service Act, 1912, the Commissioner, with the
approval of the Governor in Council, doth hereby make the following
addition and amendments to the regulations applicable to officers of
the Post and Telegraph Department, made on the twentieth day
of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and published
in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of May, one
thousand nine hundred and fourteen, in the manner and to the
extent set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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

SCHEDULE.

16A. A junior lineman on attaining the age of twenty-one years
shall be promoted to the second grade, and receive a minimum
salary of £110 per annum.

Regulation 31 (a) is hereby amended by altering the word
“forty-eight” in the last line to “forty-four.”

Regulation 63 is amended by adding the following additional
paragraph under the heading “For Postal Officers (1)”:
—
“At small sub-offices where the circulation is not large enough
to enable a suitable sorting-test to be set, a cadet shall, in lieu of