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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 17

Regulations under the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924, with respect to
Motor-vehicles held by the St. Saviour's Orphanages, Christ-
church.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day
of March, 1926.
Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on
him by the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924 (hereinafter referred
to as "the said Act"), 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 declare any motor-vehicle
held by the St. Saviour's Orphanages, Christchurch, and
used exclusively for purposes of a public nature, to be exempt
from the payment of the annual license fees prescribed by
the said Act; and doth hereby declare that this regulation
shall come into force on the first day of April, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-six.

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

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Street in the City of Nelson
of a Width less than 66 ft. but not less than 49 ft. 6 in.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day
of March, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by
the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, 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 authorize the
Nelson City Council to permit the laying-off of a street of a
width less than sixty-six feet, but not less than forty-nine
feet six inches, within the area described in the Schedule
hereto, it being inexpedient to lay off a street of a width of
sixty-six feet within the said area.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area situated in the Nelson Land District, City of
Nelson, containing approximately 2 acres 0 roods 11 perches,
being part of a block of land containing 6 acres granted to
William Collins by Crown grant registered under No. 147,
dated 18th September, 1851, and being part of the land
contained in Deeds Index, Volume 2, folio 696. As the
same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 65482, deposited in the office of the Minister of
Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District,
and thereon bordered blue.

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

(P.W. 51/365.)

Board of Trade (Gas) Amending Regulations, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day
of March, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
conferred upon him by section twenty-six of the Board
of Trade Act, 1919, and by section twenty-seven of the Finance
Act, 1924, and of every other power and authority 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, on the recommendation of the Minister of
Industries and Commerce, make the following Board of
Trade regulations relating to the regulation and control of
the supply and sale of gas.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Board of Trade
   (Gas) Amending Regulations, 1926, and shall come into force
   on the date of publication of this Order in Council in the
   Gazette.

2. Clause 2 of the Board of Trade (Gas) Regulations, 1924
   (hereinafter called "the said regulations"), is hereby amended
   as follows:

(a.) By deleting from the definition of "a cubic foot" the
word "space," and inserting in lieu thereof the
word "volume."

(b.) By deleting from the definition of "gas company"
or "company" the word "coal-gas," and inserting
in lieu thereof the word "gas."

3. Clause 3 of the said regulations is revoked, and the
   following clause substituted:

"3. (a.) The Minister may from time to time, by order
in writing, require any gas company to declare the calorific
value of the gas which it intends to supply:

Provided that any company may, subject to the provisions
of clause 5 hereof, alter the declared calorific value of its
gas by giving three months' notice in writing to the Minister
of its intention to make such alteration.

"(b.) Every gas company on which such an order is served
shall comply therewith by declaration in writing executed
by the company or signed by some responsible officer on
behalf of the company and delivered to the Minister at the
office of the Department of Industries and Commerce at
Wellington not later than fourteen days after the service
upon it of such order.

"(c.) The Minister may from time to time, by order or
orders in writing, require any gas company, on and from the
date following the day of service of the order or any later
date stated in the order,

"(i.) To sell each therm or each thousand cubic feet of
gas of the declared calorific value at a price or
prices not greater than the maximum price or
prices stated in the order.

"(ii.) To supply gas of the declared calorific value at not
less than the minimum pressure or pressures
stated in the order.

"(iii.) To supply gas free from sulphuretted hydrogen.

"(d.) So long as any order under the last preceding sub-
clause (c) hereof is in force no gas company shall sell or supply
gas contrary to the requirements of such order."

4. Clause 4 of the said regulations is amended by deleting
   all the words after the word "altered."

5. Clause 17 of the said regulations is amended by inserting
   after the word "Gas-examiners" the words "and Inspectors
   of Meters."

6. Clause 18 of the said regulations is amended by adding
   thereto the following further subclause:

"(4.) The foregoing provisions of this clause are without
prejudice to the liability of any person or company in respect
of any offence committed by such person or company and
arising out of any of the other provisions contained in these
regulations, save that if the same act or omission constitutes
an offence under this clause and also an offence under any
of the other provisions of these regulations, proceedings in
respect thereof shall be instituted under this clause alone."

7. Clause 20 of the said regulations is revoked.

8. Clause 21 of the said regulations is amended—

(a.) By inserting before the words "station meter" the
word "standard":

(b.) By adding the words "and no company shall deliver
gas manufactured by it into a gas-holder unless the
same has been so registered."

9. Clause 22 is amended by adding thereto the following
   words: "Such annual return shall be furnished in respect
   of the year ending on the 31st day of December in every
   calendar year or ending on any other date which may by
   permission in writing of the Minister be substituted for such
   date, and shall be so furnished not more than thirty-one
   days after the expiry of the annual period to which the return
   relates."

10. Clause 23 of the said regulations is revoked, and the
    following clause substituted:

"23. No company shall issue or deliver any gas-meter for
the use of any consumer unless it has been tested and stamped
as accurate either by the Board of Trade of the United King-
dom or by a Government Inspector of Meters in New Zealand,
and the Gas Referees approve of the method of testing and
stamping employed."