May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1547

Prohibiting the Importation of Ashton Bennett Electro-magnetic Knee-caps and Advertising-matter relating thereto. (C. No. 28).

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 4th day of May, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty-six of the Customs Act, 1913, and of all other powers and authorities 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 prohibit the importation into New Zealand, save with the consent of the Minister of Customs, of electromagnetic knee-caps manufactured by or vended by or on account of Ashton Bennett, of 37 Berners Street, London, and advertising-matter relating solely or principally to such knee-caps.

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

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Electric Line Regulations.—Telephone Services.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of May, 1925.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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”), inter alia, for telephone toll service:

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 108 and 109, under the heading “Toll Service,” in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

108. THE rates for ordinary toll communications shall be as follows:—

From 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.,—

Up to three minutes—

For distances up to 20 miles . . . . 0 4

For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof up to 100 miles. . . . . 0 1

For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof exceeding 100 miles . . . . . 0 2

From 9 p.m. to midnight and from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.,—

Up to three minutes—

For distances up to 40 miles . . . . 0 4

For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof up to 100 miles. . . . . 0 0½

For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof exceeding 100 miles . . . . . 0 1

From midnight to 6 a.m.,—

Up to six minutes—

For distances up to 40 miles . . . . 0 4

For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof up to 100 miles . . . . . 0 0½

For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof exceeding 100 miles . . . . . 0 1

For every additional minute exceeding three between 6 a.m. and midnight, and for every additional minute exceeding six between midnight and 6 a.m., the charge shall be one-third of the initial rate. In calculating the charge for a toll communication all fractions of a penny shall be counted; but in the total charge for a communication fractions smaller than a halfpenny shall be excluded, and fractions in excess of a halfpenny counted as one penny.

109. (1.) The rates for urgent toll communications at any time during the day or night shall be double the rates shown under the heading “8 a.m. to 9 p.m.” Urgent communications shall be given precedence over ordinary communications.

(2.) The special rates applicable to ordinary communications between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. shall not apply to urgent communications.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Native Land in Block X, Whangara Survey District, taken for the Purposes of a Quarry.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of May, 1925.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities 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 proclaim and declare that the Native land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a quarry, and that the said land shall vest in His Majesty the King as from the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken: 3 acres, being portion of Te Ana-Paikea Block.

Situated in Block X, Whangara Survey District, Cook County (Gisborne R.D.). (S.O. 1236, brown.)

In the Gisborne Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 62178, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Wairoa Electric-power Board in respect of a Loan of £5,000, being a Further Portion of a Loan of £100,000 authorized to be raised for constructing Electric Transmission-lines between Waikaremoana and Wairoa.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of May, 1925.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and its amendments, it is provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed, the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council:

And whereas the Wairoa Electric-power Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of one hundred thousand pounds for constructing electric transmission-lines between Waikaremoana and Wairoa, and is now desirous of raising the sum of five thousand pounds, being a further portion of the loan of one hundred thousand pounds:

And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven, and it is desired that the rate of interest at which the money may be borrowed be not exceeding six per centum per annum: