JUNE 11.]

amend the regulations made under the said Act, by making
the following alterations therein :—

By adding immediately after paragraph (c) of Regulation
9 of the regulations made on the 12th day of June, 1922, the
following paragraph :—

“(cc.) In the case of a cleaner, the proficiency certificate
of the Government schools : Provided, however,
that if there are no candidates holding such
certificate, appointments to the position of
cleaner shall be made from candidates holding
the sixth standard competency certificate of the
Government schools, and, if there are no candidates
holding either of the certificates mentioned,
appointments as aforesaid shall be made from
candidates who have passed the fifth standard
of the Government schools.”

By omitting from Regulation 16 of the regulations made
on the 12th day of June, 1922, the provisions as to age at
entry of a cadet, and substituting the following :—

Age at Entry.
“ As a clerical cadet .. 15 to 17 years last birthday.
“ As an engineering or
drafting cadet .. 15 to 18 years last birthday.”

By omitting from the said Regulation 16 the provisions as
to age at entry of an apprentice and a cleaner respectively,
and substituting the following :—

“ As an apprentice .. 15 to 16 years last birthday.
“ As a cleaner .. 17 to 20 years last birthday.”

This amendment shall, as regards the age at entry of an
apprentice, be deemed to have come into operation on 30th
August, 1924.

By adding to the said Regulation 16 the following
proviso :—

“ Provided further that in making appointments to the
position of cleaner, preference shall be given to candidates
aged not more than nineteen years last birthday.”

By omitting Regulation 105A from the regulations made
on the 17th day of November, 1924. This amendment shall
take effect as from the gazetting hereof.

By adding to Regulation 117 of the regulations made on
22nd June, 1922, the following paragraph :—

“(3.) Every member who is booked off duty for rest at a
foreign station for any period of not less than eight hours
shall as regards such period be deemed to be absent on duty
from his headquarters at night for the purposes of Regulation
67.”

By omitting from the First Schedule of the regulations
made on the 20th day of October, 1924, the classification
relating to engine-drivers, night foremen of cleaners,
firemen, and cleaners in Sub-class 8 of Class 2 of the Second
Division, and substituting the following :—

Maximum
Per Hour.
“ Engine-drivers and night foremen of cleaners—s. d.
“ 9th year ... 2 8 38/44
“ 8th year ... 2 7 27/44
“ 7th year ... 2 6 5/44
“ 6th year ... 2 5 16/44
“ 5th year ... 2 5 16/44
“ 4th year ... 2 4 5/44
“ 3rd year ... 2 4 5/44
“ 2nd year ... 2 4 5/44
“ 1st year ... 2 3 5/44
“ Firemen—
“ 4th year ... 2 1 16/44
“ 3rd year ... 2 0 27/44
“ 2nd year ... 2 0 27/44
“ 1st year ... 1 11 38/44
“ Provided that every fireman whose period of service
since the date of his last permanent appointment in the
locomotive running branch of the Department is not less
than ten years and who has passed to the satisfaction of the
Permanent Head the departmental examination for a second-
class engine-driver shall be paid at the rate of 2s. 3 5/44d.
per hour.

Per Hour.
s. d.
“ Cleaners—
“ 22 years and over ... 1 10 38/44
“ 21 years of age ... 1 9 34/44
“ 20 years ... 1 5 41/44
“ 19 years ... 1 4 19/44
“ 18 years ... 1 2 30/44
“ 17 years ... 1 1 8/44
“ Provided that every cleaner shall on attaining twenty-
one years of age be paid at the rate of 1s. 9 34/44d. per
hour.”

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The foregoing provisions regarding the rates of pay of
engine-drivers, firemen, and cleaners shall be deemed to have
come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1924.

By omitting from paragraph (b) of the proviso to Regulation
8 of the regulations made on the 20th day of October, 1924,
the word “ seventh,” and substituting the word “ fourth.”

This amendment shall be deemed to have come into opera-
tion on the 1st day of April, 1924.

And with the like advice and consent, and in further
pursuance of the said powers and authorities, His Excellency
the Governor-General of the said Dominion doth hereby
declare that the provisions of this Order in Council shall,
except as otherwise provided, be deemed to have come into
operation on the first day of February, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-five.

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

Altering Boundaries of Te Rapa Drainage District, County
of Waipa.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of
June, 1925.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of section
three of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, a majority
of the ratepayers in the area described in the First Schedule
hereto, situated in the County of Waipa, have presented a
petition to His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, praying that the land comprised
in the said area be included in the Te Rapa Drainage District
as constituted under the provisions of the said Act: And
whereas it is expedient to alter the boundaries of such
drainage district in manner hereinafter appearing :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority contained in section three of the Land Drainage-
Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth
hereby alter the boundaries of the said Te Rapa Drainage-
District by including in such district the area of land
described in the said petition and in the First Schedule hereto ;
and doth hereby declare that the boundaries of the said
drainage district, with such alteration as herein provided for,
shall be those described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE INCLUDED IN TE RAPA DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a
line commencing at a point on the left bank of the Waikato
River in line with the south-eastern boundary of Section 104,
Horotiu Parish, thence down the said left bank of the Waikato
River to a point in line with the northern boundary of
Suburban Section South 82; thence to and along that
boundary and its production across a public road and the
North Island Main Trunk Railway to the southernmost
corner of Suburban Section South 101, across a public road
to the north-eastern boundary of Section 118; thence north-
westerly along the north-eastern boundary of Section 118,
by a right line across a public road from the northern corner
of the last-mentioned section to the eastern corner of Section
111, along the north-eastern boundaries of the last-mentioned
section and Section 110 and that boundary produced across
a public road to the eastern boundary of Section 109A, all of
Suburban South, Town of Newcastle; thence southerly along
that boundary to the Waipa River; thence up the right bank
of the Waipa River to a point in line with the road forming
the northern boundary of Sections 55, 62, and 63, Parish of
Horotiu; thence to and along that road to the road forming
the western boundary of Section 161, Horotiu Parish; thence
southerly along that road to the road intersecting Section 161
aforesaid; thence south-easterly along that road to the road
forming the northern boundaries of Sections 122 and 121,
Horotiu Parish; along that road to the western boundary
of Section 117, Parish of Horotiu; thence along the western
boundaries of Sections 117 and 116 and along the northern
boundary of 116 to a public road, across that road, and along
its eastern side to the south-eastern boundary of Section 104,
Horotiu Parish; thence north-easterly along that boundary
to the Waikato River, the point of commencement.