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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

Extra Mileage Rates.

19. When a subscriber’s station for which individual, two-, three-, or four-party line service is furnished is situated outside a base-rate area, the annual rates therefor shall be those specified for stations within the base-rate area of the exchange with which the station is connected, plus the extra mileage rates prescribed in the next succeeding regulation.

20. The extra mileage rates for individual, two-, three-, and four-party line stations situated outside a base-rate area shall be computed on the pole-line route measurement between the subscriber’s premises and the boundary of the base-rate area at the following rates:—

Individual Lines.—Per furlong or fraction thereof beyond the boundary of the base-rate area, 10s. per annum.

Two-party Lines.—Per station, per furlong or fraction thereof beyond the boundary of the base-rate area, 5s. per annum.

Three-party Lines.—Per station, per furlong or fraction thereof beyond the boundary of the base-rate area, 3s. 4d. per annum.

Four-party Lines.—Per station, per furlong or fraction thereof beyond the boundary of the base-rate area, 2s. 6d. per annum.

Except that, where the stations on a party line are so distributed that the total mileage charges do not produce the equivalent of a return of at least 7s. 6d. per furlong or fraction thereof in respect of that portion of the circuit for which extra mileage rates are charged, the subscribers liable for extra mileage charges shall each be required to contribute on a flat-rate basis such additional amount as will produce in the aggregate, by way of extra mileage charges, a return of 7s. 6d. per furlong or fraction thereof, of such circuit.

21. The extra mileage in respect of two-, three-, and four-party line stations shall be calculated separately for each station, and shall be the pole-line route measurement between the subscriber’s premises and the boundary of the base-rate area.

Refund and Adjustment of Rental.

28. (2.) In the event of the number of subscribers’ stations connected with a line being increased during the currency of a period for which rental has been paid in advance, the new or additional subscribers shall pay rental from the date of their connection at the rates prescribed for the amended number of stations connected with the line; but no alteration shall be made in the rentals of the original stations until the due date of payment of the next half-yearly rental.

Private Telephone-lines connecting with Departmental System.

42. Persons who construct, own, and maintain private telephone-lines to a prearranged point of connection with the departmental system may be furnished with individual, two-, three-, or four-party, or rural-line service by paying the rates specified for those services. (See Regulations 143–148.)

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

The Samoa Freemasons’ Trustees Order, 1924.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1924.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

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 in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa conferred on him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby order as follows:—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Samoa Freemasons’ Trustees Order, 1924, and shall come into force on the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

2. (1.) The private Act of the Parliament of New Zealand entitled the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of New Zealand Trustees Act, 1903, shall as from the commencement of this Order apply to Samoa in the same manner as if that Territory were part of New Zealand.

(2.) For the purposes of this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, all references in the said Act to New Zealand shall be read as references to Samoa.

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