3614
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 123

Additional Land at Horotiu taken for the Purposes of the Kaipara-Waikato Railway.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Kaipara-Waikato Railway to take further land at Horotiu, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by sections twenty-nine and one hundred and eighty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land: 17·2 perches and 2 roods 7·4 perches.
Portions of Allotments 112 and 113, Horotiu Parish (S.O. 18384, blue).
Situated in Block XII, Newcastle Survey District, Waipa County.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 23033, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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 fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Telephone Exchanges.—Charges and Attendance.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of October, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the nineteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, regulations were made, under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), for the purpose of determining the hours of attendance to be observed at telephone exchanges, and fixing the charges to be paid by subscribers in connection therewith: And whereas it is expedient 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 conferred upon him by the said Act, and 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 regulations made by the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that such regulations shall form part of and be read together with the regulations made on the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and shall have effect on the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

CHARGES.

11. In addition to the entrance fee of £1, the charge per annum payable in respect of the hire of any telephone instrument connected with a Government telephone exchange is as follows:—

For an exclusive circuit,—

At exchanges which are open continuously—

Business establishments .. .. .. £7
Private residences .. .. .. .. 5

Or if not less than two-thirds of the business subscribers and not less than two-thirds of the private-residence subscribers at any time express in writing, addressed to the Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, their desire in that behalf

For each business and private-residence subscriber, at the rate of .. .. .. 6

Such expression as aforesaid shall be deemed to be operative until reversed by an expression of the desire of not less than two-thirds of the business subscribers and not less than two-thirds of the private-residence subscribers that the annual rates be £7 and £5 respectively.

At exchanges which are not open continuously—

Business establishments and private residences.. 5

Provided that at exchanges where the number of paying subscribers exceeds thirty and does not exceed fifty, and the hours of attendance are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, the charge shall be £1 per annum additional for each subscriber.

In this case subscriber means each exclusive subscriber, and also each subscriber connected with a party line.

At all exchanges—

Additional exchange connections to the same premises, £1 per annum less.

23. (1.) Except as hereinafter provided, the following hours of attendance shall be observed at the telephone exchanges, according to the number of paying subscribers connected therewith:—

Subscribers. Hours.
1 to 50 (inclusive): 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
51 ,, 100 ,, 8 ,, 8 ,,
101 ,, 125 ,, 8 ,, 10 ,,
126 ,, 150 ,, 8 ,, midnight.
151 and over: Open continuously, if at any time not less than two-thirds of the business subscribers and not less than two-thirds of the private-residence subscribers (party-line subscribers excepted), express in writing, addressed to the Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, their desire that the telephone exchange be so opened. Such expression as aforesaid shall be deemed to be operative until reversed by an expression of the desire of not less than two-thirds of the business subscribers and not less than two-thirds of the private-residence subscribers that the hours observed be from 8 a.m. to midnight:

Provided that nothing herein shall operate to prevent compliance with a requisition signed by a two-thirds majority of subscribers to a telephone exchange, for business and private connections taken together, to revert from lengthened to shortened periods of attendance at such exchange if the hours of attendance were lengthened before the 28th day of January, 1915.

(2.) At exchanges where the number of paying subscribers exceeds thirty and does not exceed fifty the hours of attendance may be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., provided that not less than three-fourths of the paying subscribers to such exchange agree in writing to the extension of hours.

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

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable LESLIE ROY CAPP,

to be an Inspector under the Factories Act, 1908. The appointment is dated the 21st day of October, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.