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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

Amendments and Additions to 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, in respect of the regulations made under the said Act on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and the amendments thereof made from time to time under the provisions of the said Act, make the amendments shown in the Schedule hereto.

Such amendments shall have effect from and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATION 177 is hereby amended by deleting from the first proviso thereto the words “but in any such case the candidate shall be assigned such total marks only in the examination as shall bear the same proportion to 2,300 as his actual marks do to the possible maximum aggregate of the subjects taken by him,” and substituting therefor the words “but in any such case the candidate shall be assigned only such proportion of the maximum marks obtainable in that subject as will bring his total possible maximum to 2,300.”

As witness my hand this 26th day of September, 1922.

W. R. MORRIS,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, 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 regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this 2nd day of October, 1922.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendments and Additions to 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, in respect of the regulations made under the said Act on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and the amendments thereof made from time to time under the provisions of the said Act, make the amendments shown in the Schedule hereto.

Such amendments shall have effect from and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATION 178 is hereby amended by deleting from Group I of the schedule of subjects the words “Dictation and.”

Regulation 178A is hereby amended by deleting from the schedule of compulsory subjects the words “Dictation and.”

Regulation 179 is hereby amended by inserting after the words “and Arithmetic” the words “not less than 50 per cent. of marks in the subject of Handwriting.”

Regulation 181 is hereby amended by inserting after the words “various subjects” the words “marks will be deducted for faulty spelling in any of the subjects of examination.”

The regulation is further amended by deleting from subject (1A) the words “Dictation and” and also the words “The writing from dictation of a passage from some newspaper or standard author, special consideration being given to punctuation and penmanship.”

As witness my hand this 26th day of September, 1922.

W. R. MORRIS,
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 regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this 2nd day of October, 1922.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council,