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phase motors with three-phase motors free of cost to the
consumer.

18. The Board shall not be liable for any failure or de-
    ficiency in the supply of electricity caused wholly by strikes,
    lockouts, or other causes beyond its control ; but the Board
    shall at all times take all reasonable steps and use all
    reasonable means to ensure a continuous supply of electricity
    to the Council and the borough consumers, and to minimise
    the risk of such failure or deficiency and the loss or delay
    arising therefrom.

19. The Board shall take over the Council’s electrical
    undertaking as from the 31st day of March, 1924, and the
    net profits accrued from that date to the date mentioned in
    clause 25 hereof shall be handed to the Board, and all
    powers by law, or by this agreement relating to the control
    of electrical undertaking, vested in the Council shall be
    deemed to pass to the Board for the purpose of this agree-
    ment.

20. The charge to be allowed the Council for administration
    as from the 1st April, 1924, until the date of taking over,
    shall be at the rate of £400 per annum.

21. The Council shall pay to the Public Trustee out of
    revenue all sinking-fund contributions falling due up to and
    including the 31st March, 1924.

22. The Council shall pay all interest on its loan debentures
    up to the 31st March, 1924.

23. The Council shall not apply for a further license.

24. House-wiring: If any alterations or change in the
    wiring of any consumer’s premises in the Borough of Feilding
    (as now existing) is required by the Board, or by the Fire
    Underwriters’ Association due to the advent of three phase,
    or any regulations made by the Board, then the cost of such
    alteration or change shall be borne by the Board, excepting
    defective installation of cables, wiring, or other apparatus
    in the present system.

25. The Board shall be deemed to have taken over control
    as from the 30th September, 1924.

26. The rate charges made by the Feilding Council for
    lighting, heating, and power, shall operate until the 30th
    September, 1924; after that date the charge shall be the
    lowest rate charged to similar consumers in the Board’s dis-
    trict as before mentioned.

27. During change-over the supply of electricity must be
    maintained by the Board.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Large consumers: Minimum charge £180 per annum.
Kilo-volt-ampere demand to be registered by a maximum-
demand indicator supplied by the Manawatu-Oroua Electric-
power Board.

Demand charges—
£3 per quarter per k.v.a. for first 25 k.v.a.
£2 10s. per quarter per k.v.a. for next 25 k.v.a.
£2 per quarter per k.v.a. for next 50 k.v.a.
£1 10s. per quarter per k.v.a. for next 50 k.v.a.
£1 per quarter per k.v.a. for balance k.v.a.

Plus unit charges—
0.5 pence per unit for first 125,000 units per quarter.
0.4 pence per unit for next 125,000 units per quarter.
0.3 pence per unit for next 125,000 units per quarter.
0.25 pence per unit for balance units per quarter.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring certain Societies to be Charitable Institutions under the Destitute Persons Act, 1910.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of November, 1924.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred by subsection one of section eighty-two of the
Destitute Persons 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 thereof,
doth hereby declare the following societies to be charitable
institutions within the meaning of the said Act:—

Trustees of the Children’s Home, Richmond Road, Auckland.
Papatoetoe Orphan Home Trust Board.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Investment of the Balances of the Public Account in Post Office Investment Certificates.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of October, 1924.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section thirty-eight of the Public Revenues
Act, 1910, it is enacted that it shall be lawful to
invest any of the balances of the Public Account or any
part thereof in any securities which the Governor-General by
Order in Council declares to be securities in which such money
may be invested.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority
conferred by the said section thirty-eight, and acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, doth hereby declare that Post Office Invest-
ment Certificates issued under the provisions of section
seventeen of the Finance Act, 1920, at five per centum com-
pound interest, shall be securities in which any of the said
balances or any part thereof may be invested. Such securi-
ties may be purchased from the holders thereof after the
anniversary dates from the date of issue at the following
rates for each one pound face value:—

Five-year Certificates— s. d.
After 1st anniversary date .... 16 0
,, 2nd ,, .... 16 5
,, 3rd ,, .... 16 10
,, 4th ,, .... 17 3

Ten-year Certificates—
After 1st anniversary date .. .. .. 12 8
,, 2nd ,, ,, .. .. .. 12 11
,, 3rd ,, .. .. .. 13 3
,, 4th ,, .. .. .. 13 7
,, 5th ,, .. .. .. 13 11
,, 6th ,, .. .. .. 14 3
,, 7th ,, .. .. .. 14 8
,, 8th ,, .. .. .. 15 0
,, 9th ,, .. .. .. 15 5

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

Money-orders for Payment in Australia.—Commission.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of November, 1924.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the seventh day
of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four,
and gazetted on the tenth day of July, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-four, a regulation was made under the
authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, fixing the
rate of commission for the issue of money-orders payable in
Australia and in certain other places:

And whereas it is expedient to amend such rate 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 enabling him in that
behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke
the rate of commission fixed by the above-mentioned Order
in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby fix the rate of
commission set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby
direct that this Order in Council shall have effect on and after
the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.
MONEY-ORDERS (BY POST).

PAYABLE in the Australian States, Dutch East 6d. for each
Indies, Ellice Islands, Federated Malay £1 or frac-
States, Fiji, New Guinea (British Adminis- tion of £1.
tration), Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Papua
(British New Guinea), Solomon Islands, and
Tonga

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.