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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

officer of less than ten years’ continuous service any time not exceeding six months’ leave of absence, in each case on half-salary. Any annual increment becoming due during such absence shall not be payable until the officer resumes duty; but when he resumes the increment shall commence and be payable as from the date of the resumption and shall be added to his salary, and the next increment shall be payable one year after the date on which the preceding increment would have become due if no leave of absence had been granted.”

Regulation No. 66 is hereby amended by adding the following proviso:—
“Provided that officers of the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce who are engaged in meat-inspection, and whose duties involve their working on at least six such holidays during the year, may be granted in lieu of equivalent time one week’s special leave during the year in addition to the annual leave granted under Regulation No. 49.”

Regulation No. 150 as amended on the 1st April, 1914, is further amended by adding the following:—
“(r.) In the Rotorua Cottage Hospital, by the Matron.”

Regulation No. 163 as amended on the 1st April, 1914, is hereby deleted, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—
163. An officer who is a member of the General Division, and who desires promotion to the Clerical Division, may sit for the Entrance Examination notwithstanding that he may be beyond the prescribed maximum age, and, if he succeeds in passing such examination, shall be qualified for promotion to the Clerical Division. By passing the Senior Examination, including the subjects required of professional officers in any Department, an officer of the General or Clerical Division may qualify for promotion to the Professional Division of such Department.”

163B. On promotion officers shall be placed at the bottom of the class to which they are promoted. Officers promoted in the same financial year to any class shall retain the same relative positions as they had before such promotion.

Regulation No. 200 is amended by deleting the last sentence, beginning from “It shall be open.”

Regulation No. 200H as made on the 1st April, 1914, is amended as follows:—
(a.) By adding to the list of subjects recommended for the Land and Income Tax Department the following subjects: “28, 29.”
(b.) By deleting the provisions relating to the Post and Telegraph Department, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following:—

(c.) By deleting the last sentence beginning from “This regulation,” and inserting in lieu thereof the sentence,—
“The provisions in this regulation relating to the Post and Telegraph Department shall be deemed to have been in force as from the 1st day of January, 1915; the remaining provisions of the regulation shall take effect as from the 1st day of April, 1915.”

Regulation No. 200I as made on the 1st April, 1914, is amended by deleting paragraph (16), “Physiography,” and inserting in lieu thereof the following:—
“(16.) Physiography.—(a.) The earth as a globe; size, shape, and general structure; internal heat; motions of rotation and revolution; the earth as a member of the solar system; phases of the moon; eclipses; solar spectra; measurement of time; inclination of the earth’s axis and its effects; meridians and parallels; latitude and longitude; the construction of maps; projections (equidistant, conical, and mercator’s only); rhumb-line and great-circle sailing; terrestrial magnetism.