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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 52

Clause 3 thereof is hereby amended by inserting the words “and special schools” after the words “Native schools.”

Paragraph (c) of the proviso to clause 4 is hereby amended by adding the words “provided further that on the recommendation of the grading officers a teacher who has occupied a temporary position for at least six months immediately preceding may be placed by the Director in the group to which the position belongs.”

Paragraph (e) of the proviso to clause 4 is hereby cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“(e.) A teacher who previously had occupied a position that would have placed him in a higher group than the one determined by his present position may, with the permission of the Director, be graded in such higher group if the grading officers report that the teacher’s efficiency has been maintained in all respects.”

Paragraph (g) of the proviso to clause 4 is hereby amended by inserting the words “and teachers in special schools” after the words “Native-school teachers.”

Clause 5 thereof is hereby amended by deleting the word “payable,” and substituting the word “paid” therefor; and by deleting the words “on the 1st day of February,” and substituting therefor the words “for the month of January.”

Paragraphs (a) and (c) of the proviso to clause 9 are hereby cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“(a.) An assistant who has held the position of head or sole teacher in a school of Grade I or Grade II may be allotted marks up to a maximum of ten under this heading: provided further that on the recommendation of the grading officers the Director may direct that an assistant who has held the position of temporary head teacher for a period of at least six months may receive up to ten marks for organization.

“(c.) The assistant mistress placed by the headmaster in charge of the infant department of a school of Grade Vc or upwards, or who has previously held such a position for a period of not less than two years, may be assigned marks up to fifteen for organization and management. For the purpose of this subclause the description ‘assistant mistress placed by the headmaster in charge of the infant department’ shall be held to include the senior teacher in a side school with an average attendance of not less than 81.”

Clause 12 is hereby amended by deleting the word “the” before the word “marks” in the last sentence thereof, and substituting therefor the word “ten.”

Clause 17 is hereby cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“17. All such appeals from each district shall be referred to an Appeal Board in the district concerned. Such Appeal Board shall consist of the Director or Assistant Director, who shall be Chairman, the Senior Inspector of the district concerned, together with a man and a woman teacher selected by the certificated men and women teachers respectively in the district in such manner as the Director may determine.”

The following two new clauses are hereby added:—

“18. The Appeal Board in each district shall consider the appeals sent in from teachers in the district. In any case where the Board decides that an appellant’s grading is too low or too high, a report to that effect shall be made to the Director, who shall refer the case to the grading officers of the district with an instruction to regrade the teacher in question.”

“19. Teachers who are entitled to benefit by the special provisions of clauses 4 (c), 4 (d), 4 (e), 9 (a), 9 (b), and 9 (c) of these regulations are required to notify the Senior Inspector accordingly not later than the 31st day of March, stating the name of the school, the position held, period of tenure with dates, rate of salary, and any other necessary particulars in connection with their claim to come under any of the regulations referred to. Likewise teachers who by reason of broken service or of service in more than one district are in any danger of having a portion of their claim for service overlooked are required to forward to the Senior Inspector of their district by the same date all relative particulars of such service as herein mentioned.”

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

Regulations for the Election of Members of Harbour Boards.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by sections seven and thirteen of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), 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, doth hereby make the following regulations as to the election of members of Harbour Boards by the electors of combined districts, by the owners or part owners of British ships, and by the payers of harbour dues.

REGULATIONS.

ELECTIONS BY THE ELECTORS OF COMBINED DISTRICTS.

1. WHERE one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the electors of a combined district under section 7 of the said Act, the provisions of sections 5 to 16 inclusive, 18 to 26 inclusive, 30 to 32 inclusive, 35, 36 to 39 inclusive, and 45 to 54 inclusive, of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, as amended by the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, and of section 2 of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1911, and of sections 2 to 12 inclusive, 13 (subsection (2)), and 16 to 24 inclusive, of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, shall apply to the elections of those members; provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in section 7 of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, public notice of any election to fill any vacancy shall be given not less than twenty-one clear days before such election, and the date for the nomination of candidates shall be not less than fourteen clear days before such election.

2. For the purposes of an election under section 7 of the said Act the Returning Officer of the principal local authority within the meaning of that section shall be the Returning Officer for the combined district; or, where there is more than one such Returning Officer, the Returning Officer for the subdivision of the district in which or nearest to which the public office of that local authority is situated shall be the Returning Officer for the purposes of such election as aforesaid.

3. The several electors rolls for the districts or portions of districts included in the combined district shall together be the electoral roll for the purposes of the election; provided that every elector on those rolls shall have one vote only at the election.

4. Where there is no electors roll for any portion of a district included in a combined district, the local authority of that district shall cause to be prepared from the electors roll or rolls of the district an electors roll for that portion of the district.

5. The local authorities of the combined district shall, on or before the day fixed for nominations, supply the Returning Officer with as many copies of such electors rolls of their districts as he may require for the purposes of the election.

6. The Returning Officer shall provide such polling-booths throughout the combined district as he considers necessary, and shall appoint as many Deputy Returning Officers and poll-clerks as are required for the effective taking of the poll at every polling-booth.

7. The poll shall close throughout the combined district at the hour at which a poll closes for an election in the district of the principal local authority: Provided that in respect to the combined district of the Counties of Tawera, Malvern, Paparua, Heathcote, Halswell, Ellesmere, Selwyn, and Springs, and the Borough of Spreydon, the poll shall close at seven o’clock p.m. on the day of the election of members of the Lyttelton Harbour Board by the electors of the said combined district.

8. For the purposes of such an election the term “district” as used in the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, means a combined district; and the term “local authority” means the principal local authority, within the meaning of the said section 7, appointed by the Governor by Order in Council dated the 27th day of February, 1911, or by any Order in Council amending or in substitution for the said Order in Council.

ELECTION BY THE OWNERS OF BRITISH SHIPS.

9. Where one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the owners of British ships in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the said Act, the Collector of Customs at the port or ports under the jurisdiction of that Harbour Board, on or before the 14th day of January in each year, shall forward to the Secretary to that Harbour Board a list of the names and addresses of all persons who, on the preceding 31st day of December, were registered as the owners or part owners of any British ship registered at any such port.

10. Every such list shall be signed by the said Collector of Customs, and shall be certified by him to be correct.

11. The Secretary to the Harbour Board shall immediately compile a list containing the names of all persons mentioned in the several lists so forwarded to him, and the list so compiled shall constitute the roll of electors for