3130

(salaries, grading, staffing, &c.) and teachers' leave of absence,
and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this
Order shall come into force on the date of publication thereof
in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

I. PUBLIC SCHOOLS : SALARIES, GRADING, STAFFING, ETC.

1. CLAUSE 14 is hereby amended-
   (a.) By inserting after subclause (1) the following sub-
   clauses:-
   "(2.) If a teacher is transferred from a permanent position which he has occupied for less than twelve months to another permanent position, the commencing salary payable on transfer to his new position shall be the minimum, unless under special circumstances the Director shall approve of a higher commencing salary.
   "(3.) In any special case where the Director is satisfied that the previous subclauses of this clause would inflict hardship, the commencing salary shall be such as he shall determine, not being greater than the maximum for the position, nor than the salary received by the teacher in any former position."
   (b.) By renumbering subclauses (2) and (3) as subclauses (4) and (5) respectively.
2. Clause 15 is hereby amended by inserting after the words "immediately preceding" the words "and that he has been continuously employed as a teacher since that date."
3. Clause 20 is hereby amended by deleting the words "who are not holders of licenses to teach and who are appointed in accordance with the proviso to subsection (1) of section 71 of the Education Act, 1914."
4. Clause 21 is hereby amended by deleting from the proviso thereto the word "increased."
5. Clause 49 is hereby revoked, and the following substituted:-
   "In any case where a teacher is transferred without increase of salary and allowances owing to a change in the grade of any school, or to a reduction in the average attendance of any school, or under the provisions of section 9 of the Education Amendment Act, 1919, or through no fault of his own, or at the request of the Minister, there may be paid to such teacher the reasonable expenses of his removal to another position."

II. TEACHERS' LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

Clause 1 is hereby amended by adding the words "provided that in special circumstances, with the approval of the Minister, leave may be granted for a longer period."

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Incorporated Society approved as Security under the Administration Act, 1908.

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 it is provided by section twenty-two of the Administration Act, 1908, that the security of any incorporated company or guarantee society approved by the Governor-General in Council may be accepted by the Court as the security required to be given by an administrator or other person appointed to administer an estate under the above-mentioned Act :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above-recited power and authority, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve, for the purpose above-mentioned, of the following incorporated society, namely:-
The Southern Union General Insurance Company of Australasia (Limited).
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

[No. 78

Portion of Ritchie Street, in the Borough of Invercargill, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

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 conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in any-wise 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Invercargill Borough Council on the fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, viz:-
"That pursuant to section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, the Invercargill Borough Council hereby resolves as follows: That the Invercargill Borough Council, being the local authority having control of that part of Ritchie Street within the Borough of Invercargill, commencing at the main East Road and extending thence in a northerly direction to Yarrow Street, being a distance of 23 chains, more or less, hereby declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the aforesaid portion of Ritchie Street";
subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the portion of Ritchie Street (described in the Schedule hereto), within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street, such condition being of the same effect as section 723 of the Invercargill By-law No. 1, 1916, relating to building-line.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that portion of street, situated in the Southland Land District (Borough of Invercargill), known as Ritchie Street, between East Road and Yarrow Street. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 54873, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Portion of King Edward Street, in the Borough of Motueka, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

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 conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in any-wise 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Motueka Borough Council on the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, viz:-
"The Motueka Borough Council, having control of that portion of King Edward Street abutting on Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, parts of Sections 1 and 2 of 177, Motueka Original, Block III, Motueka Survey District, as shown on the plan set out above, by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the said portion of the above-named street";
subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land adjoining either side of the said portion of King Edward Street (described in the Schedule hereto), within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that portion of street, situated in the Nelson Land District, Borough of Motueka, known as King Edward Street, fronting