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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Treasury Regulations.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of October, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section three of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, 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, in respect of the regulations relating to stores made under the authority of the said Act—

1. Doth hereby make to the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and published in the Gazette on the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and to the respective amendments thereof published in the Gazette on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and the fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five (collectively in the First Schedule hereto referred to as “The Treasury Regulations”), the amendments appearing in the said First Schedule hereto; and
2. Doth hereby make the additional regulation appearing in the Second Schedule hereto; and
3. Doth hereby order that the regulations and amendments hereby made shall come into force on the date of gazetting thereof.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
AMENDMENTS TO TREASURY REGULATIONS.

1. REGULATION No. 12A is amended by adding thereto the following sentence : “Wherever practicable the Standard Values Book must not remain in the custody of the Cashier.”
2. Regulation No. 20 is amended by deleting the whole thereof, and substituting the following :—
   “Every receiver shall, unless otherwise instructed by the Receiver-General, give to the person paying any money to the Public or any other Government Account a receipt in the form approved by the Treasury. Duplicate receipts must not be issued. Receipts must not be altered, but if drawn in error or requiring amendment must be cancelled and attached to their butts or carbon copies. Where receipt-books with carbon copies are used, the original spoiled receipt must be attached to the third copy and retained in the book for the local auditor, and the second carbon copy forwarded with the copy of the receiver's cash-book to the Treasury.”
3. Regulation No. 44 is amended by deleting the word “only,” and substituting the following : “unless express permission is granted by the Receiver-General to make payments in cash.”
4. Regulation No. 135A is amended by deleting the whole thereof, and substituting the following :—
   “ When stores of any kind are stolen, lost, or damaged otherwise than by fair wear-and-tear, or when any deficiency is discovered on any Store Account which is not due to clerical error, the matter shall be immediately reported to the Audit Office and to the Treasury. In arriving at the value of stores deficient on a Store Account, surpluses may be set off against deficiencies of corresponding number and quantity in the case of stores described under the same generic headings in the ledger accounts. In all other cases the gross deficiency will require to be dealt with, reference however being made to the amount of surpluses discovered at the same stocktaking of stores of different generic headings.”
5. Regulation No. 142 (b) is amended by inserting after the word “value” the following : “except as otherwise approved by Treasury.”

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ADDITIONAL TREASURY REGULATION.
Other Deposits.
71a. MONEYS received by way of deposit for other purposes—e.g., moneys found on prisoners, moneys held for hospital patients, and similar moneys—shall be accounted for under Regulations 43 to 55.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

No. 76

Increasing Number of Members of Rotorua Borough Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of October, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by the Rotorua Borough Act, 1922, it is provided that the Rotorua Borough Council shall consist of six Councillors (exclusive of the Mayor):
And whereas by the Rotorua Borough Amendment Act, 1925, provision is made for increasing the number of members of the said Council in manner therein appearing :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Rotorua Borough Act, 1922, as amended by the Rotorua Borough Amendment Act, 1925, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the total number of members of the Rotorua Borough Council shall be increased to nine Councillors (exclusive of the Mayor); that the three additional Councillors shall be elected by the electors of the said borough ; that the first election of such additional Councillors shall be held and take place on Tuesday, the seventeenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five ; and that the members of the Council to be so elected shall come into office on the day following the declaration by the Returning Officer of the candidates elected under section ten of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, or section ten of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, as the case may be.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1925–26).—Suspension of Acts and Awards relating to Employment, &c.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of October, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by section seventy-three of the Finance Act, 1924, as amended by section fifty of the Finance Act, 1925, 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 suspend, subject to the conditions set out in the Schedule hereto, all the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, the Factories Act, 1921–22, and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, and of any award or industrial agreement in force under that Act, insofar as such provisions relate to the hours of commencing or ceasing work, or to the issue of permits for overtime or extended hours, or to holidays or half-holidays, or to the closing of shops, and so far as such provisions affect the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Company (Limited), or any person employed by it, or any exhibitor referred to in the said Acts, or any person employed in or about the Exhibition in respect of the employment of any person wholly or partially in or about the said Exhibition.

SCHEDULE.

1. EIGHT hours shall constitute a day's work in or about the Exhibition and, with the exception set out in clause 2 hereof, such hours shall be worked consecutively.
2. No person shall be employed in or about the Exhibition for more than four hours without an interval of at least three-quarters of an hour for a meal.
3. Any person employed during any day in or about the Exhibition who is employed on such day in excess of eight hours or before the hour of 8 a.m. or after the hour of 10.30 p.m. (whether such excess employment is in or about the Exhibition or otherwise) shall be paid for such excess employment at not less than one-half as much again as the ordinary rate for the first two hours and at not less than twice the ordinary rate thereafter, and any person employed in or about the Exhibition on any day that would but for the provisions of this Order in Council have been a whole holiday