Mar. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 715

Amending the Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand made on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen; and I do hereby declare that the amendment hereby made shall take effect as from the date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION VI.—DISCIPLINE.

PARAGRAPH 205 is hereby amended by deleting the following sentence: “Under no circumstances whatever will he attend such meetings, wherever held, in uniform.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Warrant apportioning Annual Payments of Interest and Other Charges payable in respect of a Loan of £1,508 9s. 5d., originally raised by the Whakatane County Council, between the said Council and the Whakatane Borough Council.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section seventy-three of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, it is, inter alia, provided that where part only of any area over which a special rate is made as security for a loan is merged or included within the district of a local authority other than the local authority that made the rate, then the whole of the liability in respect of the loan shall continue to be a liability of the local authority that raised the loan; but that the Governor-General may, upon the written application of that local authority, by Warrant under his hand, direct that any local authority in whose district part of such area has been merged or included shall pay annually to the first-mentioned local authority during the currency of the loan, on such date as is specified, such amount as he considers a duly proportionate part of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the loan:

And whereas part of the area for which a special loan of one thousand five hundred and eight pounds nine shillings and five pence was raised by the Whakatane County Council for the purpose of constructing roads and bridges in the Omataroa Riding of the said County of Whakatane has been merged or included in the district of the Whakatane Borough Council:

And whereas it has been mutually agreed between the Whakatane County Council and the Whakatane Borough Council that the amount of forty-one pounds sixteen shillings and eleven pence shall be paid annually by the Whakatane Borough Council to the Whakatane County Council as its duly proportionate part of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the said loan:

And whereas written application has been made by the Whakatane County Council for the Governor-General to direct accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by section seventy-three of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, do hereby direct that the Whakatane Borough Council shall, in respect of the loan above mentioned, pay annually to the Whakatane County Council, on the first day of April in each and every year during the currency of the said loan, the above-mentioned amount of forty-one pounds sixteen shillings and eleven pence as its duly proportionate part of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the said loan.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

Amendment of 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-General. in Council, doth hereby amend the regulations under the said Act, made on the twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, by adding the clause set forth in the Schedule hereto. Such amendment shall have effect on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

7. ON entering into an agreement, the Department will pay the college fees and the cost of the necessary books, such payments to be refunded by the officer on demand should he not return to duty on completion of his period of training, or should he within five years after his return leave the Department for any reason whatsoever, save sickness or injury, or dismissal through no fault of his own.

As witness my hand this fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

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