1060
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

Declaring that the Provisions of Section 109 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, shall apply to a certain Block of Native Land.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-three of the West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor-General may by Order in Council at any time declare that the provisions of section one hundred and nine of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, shall apply to any block, section, or subdivision of land comprised in leases granted or confirmed under the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1881, and the amendments thereof:

And whereas it is expedient that the provisions of section one hundred and nine aforesaid shall apply to the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto, for the purchase of which the Crown desires to negotiate:

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 section twenty-three of the West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the provisions of section one hundred and nine of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, shall apply to the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

MANAWARU Block, Sections 5 and 6, Block III, Wairoa Survey District: Area, 243 acres.

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

Declaring Whangamarino Falls Access Road, in the Whangamarino Road District, to be a District Road.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this 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 order and declare that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a district road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Auckland Land District, Whangamarino Road District, known as the Whangamarino Falls Access Road, commencing at its junction with a road in Allotment 267, Parish of Whangamarino, Block XII, Maramarua Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a south-westerly direction passing through part of the said Allotment 267 to the western boundary of the said Allotment 267; thence generally in a northerly direction along the western boundary of the said Allotment 267, and terminating at a point at the southern end of the Whangamarino Stream Bridge near the north-western corner of the said Allotment 267, being a distance of 1 mile 5 chains, more or less. As the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 62203, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red and marked A–B.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Hauraki Plains County Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been permanently reserved for a public-pound site: And whereas it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Hauraki Plains County:

Now, therefore, 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 exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Hauraki Plains County, in trust, for a public-pound site.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 4, Block VII, Kerepeehi Township: Area, 1 acre.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Electric-line Regulations.—Telephone-exchange Rates.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated and gazetted the seventeenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, regulations were made and rates and charges fixed under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, and its amendments (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), for connections with telephone exchanges:

And whereas it is expedient to amend such regulations and rates and charges 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 in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke regulations numbered 80, 81, 82, 83, 88, and 91, under the heading “Part II.—Auxiliary Services and Miscellaneous Equipment” in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and also regulation numbered 85 made by Order in Council dated the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and gazetted on the following second day of October, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth declare that the regulations hereby made shall form part of and be read together with the regulations first herein mentioned, and shall come into force on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

80. EXCEPT as provided in Regulation 83, telephones and switching facilities for providing means of inter-communication between various positions in the same premises shall be furnished and maintained at the following annual rates for each inter-communicating extension station:—

(a.) Automatic private branch exchange extension stations .. .. .. .. £ s. d.
3 5 0
(b.) Manual private branch exchange extension stations .. .. .. .. 2 15 0
(c.) Extension stations wired for inter-communication, but not associated with a private branch exchange switchboard .. .. 2 15 0
(d.) “Interphone” sets, for each position at which such sets are installed .. .. 2 15 0

The foregoing rates, as well as those prescribed in Regulation 83, are for wall telephones; desk instruments shall be 5s. per annum extra.

81. In addition to the annual rates prescribed in the last preceding regulation, the subscriber shall be required to pay the cost of labour involved in installing the switching-apparatus, telephones, and the associated wiring.

82. The equipment of a private branch exchange shall include a switchboard or switching-apparatus of sufficient capacity to provide accommodation for all trunk lines and extension stations required by the subscriber, together with the necessary batteries, ringing-devices, fittings, and one telephone or operator’s set for each switchboard position. The cost of power for charging and recharging any secondary batteries associated with a private branch exchange shall be borne by the subscriber. In connection with “Interphone” installations one holding-device shall be provided for each trunk line. Any holding-devices required in excess of one for each trunk line shall be charged for at the rates prescribed in Regulation 91,