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Electric Lines Regulations.—Transmission of Telegrams by Telephone.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of November, 1921.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and gazetted on the seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), for the transmission of telegrams by telephone: And whereas it is expedient to amend such regulations in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulation numbered eight in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth declare that the said regulation shall have effect on and after the date of publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

TRANSMISSION OF TELEGRAMS BY TELEPHONE.

8. A person requiring a telegram to be telephoned to a telephone exchange subscriber, or private-line owner, from the office of destination may insert in the address of the telegram, after the name of the addressee, the word “Telephone,” to be followed, when known, by the number of the addressee's exchange connection. On receipt at the office of destination the telegram shall forthwith be telephoned to the addressee. A telephoning fee shall not be charged for this service.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

National War Funds Council established under the War Funds Act, 1915.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 1921.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the War Funds Act, 1915 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the appointments made to the National War Funds Council by Order in Council dated the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and gazetted on the fourth day of the same month, and by Order in Council dated the nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and gazetted on the twenty-first day of the same month, made under the said Act, and in lieu thereof doth hereby appoint the Minister for the time being administering the said Act and—

JAMES HENRY GUNSON, Esq., Auckland;
VICTOR JOHN LARNER, Esq., Auckland;
EDWARD HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS, Esq., Hastings;
HUGH MORRISON, Esq., Masterton;
SIR JOHN PEARCE LUKE, Kt., C.M.G., Wellington;
WALTER ELLIS BETHUNE, Esq., Wellington;
LEONARD OWEN HOWARD TRIFF, Esq., Wellington;
The Hon. WILLIAM WALLACE SNODGRASS, Esq., Nelson;
HENRY HOLLAND, Esq., Christchurch;
JAMES JOHN CLARK, Esq., Dunedin;
JOHN GILKISON, Esq., Invercargill;
JAMES POW, Esq., Wellington; and
ROBERT JOHN FROST ALDRICH, Esq., Wellington;

To be members of the said Council.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Huatoki Scenic Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of three years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

WILLIAM EDWARD BENDALL,
GEORGE WILLIAM BROWNE,
JOHN HENRY FRETHEY,
JONATHAN GILBERT LAWRENCE,
ALBERT THOMAS MOORE,
WALTER RUMBALL, and
JOHN THERKLESON,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Huatoki Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Friday, the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, at half past seven o'clock p.m., in the Methodist Schoolroom, Vogeltown; and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Friday in each quarter at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days' notice of such meeting is given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any four members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman for such meeting.

7. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-General shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

HUATOKI SCENIC RESERVE.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 4s, Huatoki Settlement, Block V, Paritutu Survey District : Area, 9 acres 3 roods 15 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of November, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Crown Lands Ranger for Taranaki Land District appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1921.

His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 29 of the Land Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint

HAROLD VICTOR CHATTERTON

to be a Ranger of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District, as from the 11th November, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.