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and twenty, taking land for a further portion of the Stratford Main Trunk Railway (portion of Matiere Section), for road-diversions in connection therewith, and for road approaches thereto, as affects the area of land described in the Schedule hereto, such portion of land being not now required for the purpose for which it was taken.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land not required : 6 acres 1 rood 20 perches.

Being portion of Subdivision 1, Section 3, Whatitokarua Block, situated in Block IV, Ohura Survey District (Taranki R.D.). (S.O. 5448.)

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45573 (sheet 3), deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of December, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

[L.s.]

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land under Section 14 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, it is provided, inter alia, that on being satisfied that the purchase of any Native land has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown under the authority of the Native Land Act, 1909, the Governor-General may issue a Proclamation that such land has become Crown land:

And whereas the purchase of the Native land set out in the Schedule hereto has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown under the authority of the Native Land Act, 1909:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority so conferred upon me by section fourteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the land set out in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land.

SCHEDULE.

KAIMANAWA 1E 2E Block, Waitahanui Survey District: Approximate area, 634 acres 1 rood 30 perches.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of December, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

Additional Treasury Regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1921.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section three of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, 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 make the following regulations in amendment of the Treasury Regulations made on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and gazetted on the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty; and doth direct that the regulations hereby made shall form part of and be read with the aforesaid regulations, and shall come into force on the date of gazetting thereof.

REGULATIONS.

76A. Every voucher for a refund of revenue shall be accompanied by a certificate from a Receiver or other officer stating explicitly when, in what sum, and to what credit the amount claimed as refundable was paid into Public Account, and why the amount is refundable.

79A. Quarterly requisitions for authority to incur expenditure shall be submitted from time to time, in such form as is approved by the Treasury, through the authorizing officer, for approval of the Minister of the Department or of an officer appointed by the Minister for the purpose. Requisitions for supplies required for services under the “Legislative Council” and the “House of Representatives” shall be submitted for approval of the respective Speakers.

88. Add the following paragraph at end of regulation 88 :- An officer of the Public Service shall not, without the special approval of the Minister of the Department concerned, act as agent or attorney for the receipt of moneys due by the Government to a public creditor or claimant.

111A. Permanent Heads shall appoint responsible officers to count the cash held by each of their departmental imprestees at the close of each accounting period; also to check any advances shown as outstanding in the hands of sub-imprestees. A certificate in the form shown hereunder is to be supplied direct to the Paymaster-General, The Treasury, Wellington, by the officer so appointed, and must be forwarded by the first mail after the close of the accounting period.

CERTIFICATE.

Imprest Account of C. D.

I, A. B., certify that I have this day counted the cash held by C. D., and found same to total £ : : . I have also examined the imprestee’s statement of advances in the hands of sub-imprestees, and from the receipts for such advances included in the account for the period hereby certify that the amount £ : : shown as outstanding is correct.

135A. When stores of any kind are deficient from any cause, or when a deficiency is discovered on any Store Account, the matter shall be immediately reported to the Controller and Auditor-General, who will take such action as appears necessary with regard thereto. The value of stores deficient on a Store Account means the sum total of the values of the stores deficient on individual headings of account, without any abatement in respect of stores which may be surplus on other headings of accounts.

135B. When the concurrence of the Audit Office and Treasury with regard to the writing-off of a loss is received, the Permanent Head of the Department shall take the necessary action to provisionally write off the loss in the store or other account concerned, the date of the Audit Office and Treasury authority being quoted on the voucher supporting the entry in the ledger.

135C. No loss or deficiency is to be included in the annual Appropriation Act for discharge from the Public Account except those previously concurred in by the Audit Office and the Treasury.

135D. The system of Store and Departmental Property accounts to be kept by the various Departments of the Public Service shall be such as will enable a properly classified, concrete, and comparable perpetual record to be maintained. All stores received, however trifling in value, also packages-i.e., cases, barrels, sacks, bales, jars, &c.-must be taken on charge. Attention is directed to regulation 7 hereof.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending Rules under the Bankruptcy Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1921.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in this behalf enabling him, 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, and with the concurrence of the Honourable the Acting Chief Justice of New Zealand, and the Honourable Mr. Justice Chapman, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, doth hereby revoke, as from the sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, the rules made on the nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and gazetted on the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, prescribing the remuneration to be paid to Assignees, and doth hereby make the following rules in lieu thereof; and doth hereby declare that such rules shall come into operation on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.