May 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1361

Amending the Samoa Legislative Council (Elective Membership) Order, 1923.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,
CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of May, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa conferred upon him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby amend the Samoa Legislative Council (Elective Membership) Order, 1923, as follows:—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Samoa Legislative Council (Elective Membership) Amendment Order, 1926, and shall be read with and form part of the Samoa Legislative Council (Elective Membership) Order, 1923, and shall come into force on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

2. (1.) Clause eleven of the Samoa Legislative Council (Elective Membership) Order, 1923, is hereby amended by omitting from subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subclause one the words “of the capital value of not less than two hundred pounds.”

(2.) The said clause eleven is hereby further amended by adding to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subclause one the following words: “or who pays a store-tax or a business license fee as provided by an Ordinance in force in Samoa.”

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

Electric Line Regulations.—Telephone-exchange Rates.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,
CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of May, 1926.

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”) for connections with telephone-exchanges:

And whereas it is thereby provided, inter alia, that in localities adjacent to a base-rate area where, in the opinion of the Minister, the number of subscribers within a definite area warrants the installation of telephone-cables, a reduced extra mileage rate may be fixed for such area by special regulation:

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 make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth order that the regulation 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.

SCHEDULE.

20B. SUBSCRIBERS to the Auckland telephone-exchange system whose premises are within the Takapuna district and more than one furlong beyond the Devonport boundary of the Auckland base-rate area, shall be charged, in addition to the present rates for connection within the Auckland base-rate area, a flat extra mileage rate of £1 per annum in respect of each individual line, and in respect of party lines such equal annual sum per subscriber as will amount to an aggregate annual sum of £1 per party line. Subscribers whose premises are beyond the boundary of the Takapuna district as hereinafter defined shall be charged, in addition to the foregoing rates, the extra mileage rates specified in Regulation 20 in respect of the length of circuit required beyond the boundary of the Takapuna district.

For the purposes of this regulation, the Takapuna district is deemed to be the area within any point not exceeding two miles by the nearest route by road from the Takapuna Post-office.

The mileage rates aforesaid shall be in substitution for the extra mileage rates set out in Regulation 20 of the regulations.

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