Mar. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 867

the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, with the amendments thereto published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen) to officers and other persons employed as workmen in the Tourist and Health Resorts Department; and doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto with respect to leave of absence for officers of the General Division of the Tourist and Health Resorts Department. The said regulations shall have effect from and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

1. The Permanent Head, Tourist and Health Resorts Department, may grant leave of absence for recreation to officers of the General Division of the Department on the following scale:—
   (1.) To bath, pump, and boiler attendants, caretakers, guides, laundresses, ticket-sellers, and masseurs—
   (a.) When an officer has served less than ten years, not exceeding two weeks in each year;
   (b.) When an officer has served for ten years and upwards, not exceeding three weeks in each year:
   Provided that head masseurs and masseuses employed for approximately not less than half time on “wet” massage duty may be allowed an additional week’s leave in each year.
   (2.) To matrons, nurses, probationer nurses, hostel-managers, and housekeepers, not exceeding four weeks in each year.
   (3.) To poultrymen, carters, and rangers, not exceeding three weeks in each year.
2. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing regulation, officers who are generally required to be on duty on alternate Sundays (and who are not allowed a holiday in lieu of Sunday) may be granted an additional week’s leave of absence in each year, and officers who are generally required to be on duty every Sunday (and who are not allowed a weekly holiday in lieu of Sunday) may be granted not more than two weeks’ additional leave in each year, but no officer shall be entitled to receive more than four weeks’ leave in any year.
3. The granting of leave of absence pursuant to the foregoing regulations shall be subject to the express conditions—
   (a.) That the behaviour of the officer has been in every respect satisfactory;
   (b.) That the total sick or special leave during the previous twelve months has not exceeded fourteen days; and
   (c.) That his official duties have been satisfactorily performed.
4. All the days of absence in excess of the number of days allowed for sick or special leave shall be deducted from the annual leave of absence granted for recreation, but in special cases the Commissioner may, on the recommendation of the Permanent Head, grant further leave.

SPECIAL HOLIDAYS.

5. (1.) Where possible officers shall receive, in addition to annual leave, the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, and Christmas Day; and six other holidays as may be convenient to the Department.
   (2.) Officers who cannot be granted such holidays may be granted equivalent time, provided it is taken within four weeks of the holiday.

As witness my hand this twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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 twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.