Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1983

“ (8.) Officers called upon to perform relieving duty which necessitates their absence at night from home shall be paid allowances at the following rates :—
To officers drawing salaries not exceeding £150 : Per Diem. actual and reasonable expenses. s. d.
To officers drawing salaries exceeding £150 and not exceeding £305 .. .. .. 10 0
To officers drawing salaries exceeding £305 and not exceeding £480 .. .. .. 12 6
To officers drawing salaries exceeding £480 .. 15 0
“ Claims made by officers drawing salaries not exceeding £150 per annum for a refund of actual expenses are to be supported by vouchers, and will be subject to revision by the Secretary. Officers entitled to lodging-allowance, when appointed to relieving duty involving separate payment for such duty, will not be entitled to claim lodging-allowance for a longer time than one week after the relieving duty commences.”

The words “ Dismissals, Removals ” in the heading of Part III are deleted, and the words “ Misconduct, Inefficiency ” substituted therefor.

Regulation 32 is hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—
“ 32. (1.) At any inquiry held under Regulation 31 hereof as to the truth of any charge made against an officer the officer shall be entitled to be represented by counsel or agent.
“ (2.) No officer shall be compelled to answer any question tending to incriminate him.
“ (3.) On any such inquiry the Secretary, or person or persons appointed as aforesaid, shall direct himself or themselves by the best evidence he or they can procure or that is laid before him or them, and may receive or reject as he or they think fit any evidence that may be tendered.
“ (4.) The Secretary shall keep a complete record of all such inquiries, including the depositions of all witnesses who gave evidence thereat, and such record and depositions shall be available for subsequent reference.
“ (5.) The decision after such inquiry shall be made known to the officer by the Secretary.”

Clauses (2), (6), (17), and (18) of Regulation 37 are hereby revoked, and the following clauses substituted therefor :—
“ (2.) The elective members of the Board shall be elected by ballots to be taken on the fourth Wednesday in June in every third year after the 25th day of June, 1919. Such members shall hold office until their successors come into office.”
“ (6.) The Chief Clerk of the Secretary’s Office, General Post Office, or the person for the time being performing the duties of such Chief Clerk, shall be the Returning Officer for the election. There shall be two scrutineers—namely, the Assistant Postmaster, Wellington, and the Superintendent of the Telegraph Office, Wellington, or the person or persons performing the duties of either or both of those officers.”
“ (17.) The Returning Officer shall, within seven days after receiving such direction, appoint a day for holding the election, and publish notice thereof in the Department’s Official Circular. Such day of election shall not be earlier than thirty days nor later than forty-five days after such notice has appeared.”
“ (18.) The electoral list to be used at an extraordinary election shall be the same list as is used at an ordinary election, but the latter shall be revised and corrected so as to include only those officers in the Department one month before the day on which the extraordinary election is to be held. Candidates must be nominated in the same manner as is required for an ordinary election, and nominations must be received by the Returning Officer not later than twenty-one days before the day of election.”

Regulation 65 is hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—
“ 65. (1.) No person shall be eligible for appointment as message-boy or message-girl until he or she has attained the age of fourteen years and has obtained a certificate of proficiency in the Sixth Standard as defined by regulation under the Education Act, 1914.
“ (2.) An educational certificate of any reputable private school will be accepted upon proof to the satisfaction of the Secretary, or of some person appointed by him in that behalf, that the applicant has passed an examination equivalent in all material respects to that required for a certificate of proficiency in the Sixth Standard.”

Clause 3 of Regulation 71 is hereby amended by inserting the word “ Telegraph ” before the word “ Engineer ” in the first line; and by deleting the subclause initials “ (a),” “ (b),” “ (c),” and substituting therefor “ (e),” “ (f),” “ (g),” respectively.

Clause (4) of Regulation 71 is hereby amended by inserting the word “ Telegraph ” after the word “ Assistant ” in the first line; by deleting the letters “ (f),” “ (g),” in the fourth line, and “ (h) ” in the fifth line, and substituting therefor the letters “ (h) ” “ (j),” “ (k) ” respectively; by deleting the subclause initials “ (f),” “ (g),” “ (h),” and substituting therefor the initials “ (h),” “ (j),” “ (k) ” respectively; and by deleting the last paragraph, commencing “ Provided.”

Clause (2) of Regulation 72 is renumbered “ (3),” and the following additional clause, to be numbered “ (2),” is hereby made :—
“ (2.) To the Clerical Division as a clerk or telegraphist until he has passed the Competency Examination.”

Clause (b) of Regulation 73 is hereby revoked, and the following clauses substituted therefor :—
“ (b.) An examination in postal work based on an elementary knowledge of the rules and regulations of the Department and of the portions of the Post and Telegraph Guide of the current issue applicable to mail-room and parcel-post duties; or
“ (c.) An examination in telegraph work based on an elementary knowledge of the rules and regulations of the Department and of the portions of the Post and Telegraph Guide of the current issue applicable to the telegraph section of the service; also an examination in sending and receiving on the Morse instrument over a length of line (actual working-conditions) at a minimum rate of ninety letters sent and ninety letters received per minute, ten minutes each way, with a maximum of mistakes of 1 per centum in words.”

Regulation 74 is hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—
“ 74. (1.) The Junior Examination shall be—
“ (a.) For shorthand-writers, a test in shorthand at the rate of eighty words a minute for five minutes, and a test in typewriting at the rate of thirty words a minute for ten minutes:
“ (b.) For typists, a test in typewriting at the rate of thirty words a minute for ten minutes, and typewriting from confused manuscript:
“ (c.) For machinists, a test in the manipulation of one or other of the following machines—namely, Burroughs adding-machine; comptometer; Wahl-Remington typewriter.
“ (2.) Before advancement beyond Class IV of the General Division, shorthand-writers, typists, and machinists shall pass the Senior Examination, which shall be—
“ (a.) For shorthand-writers, a test in shorthand at the rate of one hundred and ten words a minute for five minutes, and a test in typewriting at the rate of forty words a minute for ten minutes.
“ (b.) For typists, a test in typewriting at the rate of forty words a minute for ten minutes, and typewriting from confused manuscript.
“ (c.) For machinists, a test in the manipulation of all the calculating-machines mentioned in section (1) (c) of this regulation.”

Clause 2 of regulation 75B is hereby revoked, and the following clause substituted therefor :—
“ (2.) A technical examination dealing with the fundamental principles of technical telegraphy, including batteries, instruments, simple testing, simplex and duplex systems.
“ Officers solely employed in telegraph duties at combined offices shall be required to pass the telegraph examinations.”

Regulation 75D is hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—
“ D. For officers engaged exclusively on money-order and savings-bank duties: An examination in the money-order and savings-bank and postal-note rules and regulations of the Department, and that portion of the Post and Telegraph Guide of the current issue relating to this branch of the service; the examination to include a knowledge of the methods of the computation and check of savings-bank interest, and an elementary knowledge of general matters arising out of the work of the branch.”

Clause (2) of Regulation 75E is hereby revoked, and the following clause substituted therefor :—
“ (2.) A technical examination dealing with the fundamental principles of technical telephony, including batteries, telephones, apparatus, simple testing, and non-multiple switchboards.”

Regulation 75G is hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—
“ G. For other officers in the Clerical Division: The scope of the examination for any small group specially examined shall follow the general lines set out for the larger groups mentioned above—that is to say, a paper on the rules and regulations and the Post and Telegraph Guide affecting their duties, and an examination involving a good general knowledge of the work of the branch in which they are engaged.”

Regulation 76 is hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—