Feb. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 363

Electric-power Board to construct the works indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 55466, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, for the purpose of enabling the Board to erect electric lines as shown on the said plan and such further lines as may from time to time be required in the Dannevirke Electric-power District as hereinafter defined, and substations for the transmission and distribution of electrical energy in the Dannevirke Electric-power District, as defined by Proclamation dated the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 75; of the eleventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, subject to the following conditions.

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CONDITIONS.

1. No electric lines shall be used for the distribution of electrical energy until the Dannevirke Electric-power Board has obtained a license for such purposes in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911.

2. Any conditions inserted in such license shall be strictly complied with by such Board.

3. Such Board shall forward for the approval of the Minister of Public Works such further plans and particulars as the Minister may require.

4. The Board shall not, without the consent in writing of the Minister of Public Works, erect any electric lines along the routes of the Government main trunk transmission-lines.

5. The works hereby authorized shall be constructed so as to comply with the regulations made under section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, dated the 9th day of October, 1922, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th day of the same month, or any regulations made in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor, which regulations shall be deemed to be incorporated herein.

6. The licensee shall substantially complete the works hereby authorized within a period of five years from the date of this license, or within such further time as the Minister may allow in the event of the work being delayed by strikes, lockouts, breakdowns, or other unavoidable causes not due to any neglect of the licensee.

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

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Authorizing the Purchase by the Tararua Electric-power Board of the Eketahuna Borough Electric Works.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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 authorize the purchase by the Tararua Electric-power Board, duly constituted under the provisions of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, of the electric works erected in pursuance of the Order in Council issued to the Eketahuna Borough Council on the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 21, page 815, of the thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

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

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Authorizing the Purchase by the Tararua Electric-power Board of the Pahiatua Borough Electric Works.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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 authorize the purchase by the Tararua Electric-power Board, duly constituted under the provisions of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, of the electric works erected in pursuance of the Order in Council issued to the Pahiatua Borough Council on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 54, page 1619, of the fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

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

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Amendment to the Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1918.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1918 (hereinafter termed “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 make the following amendment to the regulations made on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and gazetted on the second day of the same month, for the classification and regulation of the Post and Telegraph Department; and doth direct that this Order in Council shall come into force from the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

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SCHEDULE.

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

76. (1.) The Controlling Officers’ Examination shall be an examination of an officer’s fitness to proceed to a position of control in the Service. The questions set shall be designed to test an officer’s detailed knowledge of the duties of the branch in which he seeks promotion and his general knowledge of the activities of the rest of the Service.

(2.) There shall be—

(a.) A special paper (in one or more sections) dealing with the work of that branch of the Service in which the officer seeks promotion; and

(b.) A general paper (in one or more sections), to be taken by all officers of every branch of the Service, designed to test an officer’s general departmental knowledge and capacity. Overseers, chief and senior mechanics, and mechanics shall not be required to take the general paper.

(3.) The special paper, for which a syllabus shall be prepared when necessary, shall relate to the work and duties of—

(a.) General postal;

(b.) Telegraph;

(c.) Combined offices;

(d.) Accounting and money-order and savings-bank;

(e.) Telephone;

(f.) Telegraph Engineers;

(g.) Head Office;

(h.) Such other general groups as may be defined from time to time.

(4.) The scope of the special paper shall include a thorough knowledge of—

(a.) Post and Telegraph Act as far as it relates to the particular branch of the Service:

(b.) The rules and regulations as far as they relate to the particular branch of the Service:

(c.) Management and methods of work, including theory and practice, especially in technical matters.

(5.) The general paper shall be designed to test an officer’s knowledge of the activities of all branches of the Service, and shall include general questions on the work of all the main sections, as disclosed in the Post and Telegraph Guide, the various rule-books and other departmental publications; the relations of the Department with other Departments and with the public; the furnishing of reports; the conducting of correspondence; and the maintenance of discipline.

(5.) The answers to the questions shall be fully expressed, and upon the manner in which this is done, particularly in the general paper, it shall be decided whether or not the officer’s qualifications in the English language are sufficient to enable him to hold a controlling position. The style and general composition of the replies shall be an essential factor in awarding a pass.

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