JUNE 29.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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West Taupo County.—Wharepapa Survey District.

Section 8, Block XV: Area, 545 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £820. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £20 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £16 8s. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. Undulating to broken country; about half fern, balance fairly heavy mixed forest comprising tawa, tawhero, rewarewa, rata, and a few rimu, with heavy undergrowth of konini, raurekau, makomako, supplejack, &c. Light soil of medium quality, on volcanic formation; well watered by small streams. Distant thirty-five miles from Te Awamutu by formed dray-road.

Awakino County.—Maungamangero Survey District.

Section 2, Block IX: Area, 299 acres. Capital value, £300. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £7 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6.

Weighted with £75, valuation for improvements consisting of fencing and grassing.

Altitude, 350 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level. Broken land, about 30 acres felled and grassed; balance covered with heavy mixed forest comprising tawa, towai, tawhero, rata, and rimu, with undergrowth of supplejack, makomako, mahoe, konini, &c. Light soil of medium quality, on rubble formation; well watered by small streams. Distant forty-one miles from Te Kuiti (via Mahoenui), twenty-seven miles of which is by formed dray-road, balance 3 ft. formed track.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this tenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Amendments to the Regulations under the Public Service Act, 1912.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred on him by the Public Service Act, 1912 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor in Council, doth hereby, in respect of the regulations made under the said Act on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and the amendments thereof, amend the regulations now in force in the manner and to the extent also set forth in the Schedule hereto. Such regulations and amendments shall have effect from and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATION 205 is hereby cancelled, and the following regulation made in lieu thereof:—

Any officer in a class not higher than the Sixth Class passing—
(a.) The Solicitors’ Examination; or
(b.) The Accountants’ Examination; or
(c.) The examination for any University Degree; or
(d.) Any examination which in the opinion of the Commissioner is of equal importance with any of the foregoing—
may be granted a double increment: Provided that—
(1.) Such increment shall not take effect to increase the salary beyond the maximum of the class in which the officer’s position is classified;
(2.) The conduct of the officer has been satisfactory and he is otherwise favourably reported on;
(3.) An officer having received a double increment in any one of the above examinations shall not thereafter be entitled to a further double increment for passing another or others; and
(4.) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to officers of the Professional Division.

Whenever in consequence of proviso No. 1 an officer is not able to receive a double increment, such double increment shall be deferred until the officer is promoted to a higher class, and may then be given.

As witness my hand this twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves the foregoing regulations.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Approved in Council this twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.