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"(b.) All stores as defined by section 10, Finance Act, 1922, also cases, packages, and containers of value, must be taken on Store Ledger charge immediately on receipt, and every entry on the debit side of the ledger supported by proof of its accuracy.

"(c.) Accounting officers shall be responsible that all stores under their charge are kept in good order and are correct, according to the quantities borne in the Stores Ledger.

"(d.) No stores shall be issued without a requisition signed by a duly authorized officer, and every credit entry must be supported by a receipted voucher.

"(e.) No stores shall be written off as condemned until they have been inspected by a Board of Survey or, in the case of those of minor value, by an Inspecting Officer, and all records of survey and disposal must be retained for Audit purposes."

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

Regulations under the Naval Defence Act, 1913, amended.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 2nd day of March, 1925.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section twenty-five of the Naval Defence Act, 1913, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby amend and supplement the regulation referred to in the Schedule hereto as shown therein.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND PAYMENT OF THE NEW ZEALAND DIVISION OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

1. CANCEL first three lines of Regulation No. 13, and substitute:—

"Deferred Pay: Men.—Deferred pay in lieu of pension shall be allowed to accumulate to the credit of every man entered for permanent service in the New Zealand Division, or engaged or re-engaged on loan prior to 1st January, 1925. No deferred pay will be credited to ratings engaged or re-engaged on loan from the Royal Navy on or subsequent to 1st January, 1925."

Regulation No. 13, paragraph 6, line 2; between "Royal Navy" and "shall" insert the words "prior to 1st January, 1925."

Regulation No. 14: After "£36 per annum" insert—

"Seamen ratings and Marines under 18 years of age Nil."

Cancel regulation No. 34, and substitute—

Rewards for Apprehension of Deserters and Absentees.

"34. Rewards for Apprehension of Deserters and Absentees.—Exceptional zeal or intelligence in effecting the arrest of a deserter or absentee, or in causing him to surrender, may be recognized by the payment of a reward of which the amount is to be determined by the energy and intelligence which has been shown, and is not to exceed £1 for the arrest of a man who has overstayed his leave, or £2 for the arrest within two years of a deserter or of a man who has—

"(a.) Broken out of his ship;

"(b.) When on service or away from his ship quitted his place of duty and continued to be absent after the time at which he should have returned to the ship; or

"(c.) When his ship was under sailing orders, continued to be absent without leave after the ship has sailed, provided that the fact of the ship being under sailing orders was generally known.

"A reward should not be offered beforehand, except in rare cases where the recovery of the deserter or absentee is of special importance for other reasons.

"Rewards not payable.—No reward is to be paid for the apprehension of any officer, or to any Naval rating, or to any member of a police force employed at a Naval establishment.

"Paragraph 2. The amount of the reward to be paid, within the above limits, shall be at the discretion of the officer dealing with the case, and shall be determined by the attendant circumstances, in considering which the zeal shown and the trouble taken by the person effecting the arrest should be taken into consideration.

"Paragraph 3. The amount of the reward paid, together with the cost of his own passage to his ship, shall be charged against the pay of the deserter or straggler."

In Regulation No. 33 delete words "one month's" in fifth line of first paragraph, and substitute "six months."

In Regulation No. 41, for rates of messing and victualling allowances of "9½d. and 1s. 6d." per diem respectively, substitute "9d. and 1s. 5½d." as from the 1st January, 1924.

In Regulation No. 42, for rate of general mess allowance of "1s. 7d. per diem for men and 1s. 8½d. for boys," substitute "1s. 6½d. for men and 1s. 8½d. for boys" with effect as from 1st January, 1924. From 1st July, 1924, substitute the rates "per diem of 1s. 8d. for men and 1s. 9¼d. for boys." From 1st October, 1924, substitute the rates "1s. 6½d. for men and 1s. 8½d. for boys."

In Regulation No. 53, add to paragraph 1:—

"NOTE.—In vessels having two classes of accommodation only—viz., saloon and steerage—Chief Petty Officers are to be provided with saloon passages."

Regulation No. 56, paragraph 3, line 2: After the word "granted" insert "or when absent on duty."

Appendix II. Officers' Stewards and Cooks: Cancel and substitute the following revised New Zealand rates of pay, which are approved as from the 1st July, 1924:—

"Officers' Steward and Cook, 4th class .. .. 5 6
"Officers' Steward and Cook, 3rd class .. .. 7 4
"After three years' man's time .. .. 7 6
"After six years' man's time .. .. 7 8
"Officers' Steward and Cook, 2nd class .. .. 8 6
"After three years' service .. .. 8 8
"Officers' Steward and Cook, 1st class .. .. 9 6
"After three years' service .. .. 9 10
"After six years' service .. .. 10 2
"Officers' Chief Cook and Steward .. .. 11 0
"After three years' service .. .. 11 6

Appendix III. Gunlayer, 1st class: Cancel and substitute:—

"Open to all ratings above A.B., holding a gunnery rating higher than S.G. (except Gunner's Mates): Men selected must pass the prescribed course .. .. .. .. .. 1 0

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Mount Wellington Road Board's Loan of £30,000 for Road-construction and Machinery Purposes.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 2nd day of February, 1925.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Mount Wellington Road Board lately proceeded to raise a loan of thirty thousand pounds under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), for the construction of roads and purchase of machinery and plant:

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said loan were irregular in that (a) the voting-paper used for the purposes of the poll taken on the proposal to raise the said loan did not set forth the proposed security and provision for the repayment of the said loan, nor a statement whether or not it was proposed to pay out of the loan the cost of raising the loan or the interest and sinking fund for the first year, as required by section ten of the said Act; and (b) the notice of the number of votes recorded for and against the proposal was not published by the Chairman in some newspaper circulating in the district, as required by section twelve of the said Act:

And whereas (a) the proposed security and provision for the repayment of the said loan, and a statement that it was proposed to pay out of the loan the cost of raising the loan, and the interest and sinking fund for the first year, was set forth in the notice published pursuant to section nine of the