SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of piece of land taken : 7·5 perches.
Being part Section 3 and part Section 4, situated in Block III,
Town of Cromwell.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 66346, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 26th day of June, 1926.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(P.W. 20/17/2.)

Land taken for the Purposes of a Public School in Block IV, Marotiri Survey District, Taupo County.

[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a public school, and shall vest in the Education Board of the District of Auckland, as from the date hereinafter mentioned; and I do also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken : 3 acres.
Being part Pouakani B No. 6r Section 4D, situated in Block IV, Marotiri Survey District (Auckland R.D.), (S.O. 23998.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 66287, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 26th day of June, 1926.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(P.W. 31/468.)

Defining the Middle-line of a Road in Block IX, Mangaone Survey District—viz., a Deviation of the Wellington to Napier (via Wairarapa) Main Highway.

[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, the Public Works Amendment Act, 1923, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle-line of the road desired to be constructed over Block IX, Mangaone Survey District—viz., a deviation of the Wellington to Napier (via Wairarapa) Main Highway—shall be that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point marked A opposite Section 44, Block IX, Mangaone Survey District, on the Wellington to Napier (via Wairarapa) Main Highway, and proceeding thence generally in a north-easterly direction and passing in, into, through, or over the said Section 44 and Section 43, Reserve No. 35 (bridge reserve) and part Subdivision No. 2B of the Eketahuna Native Reserve, Block IX, Mangaone Survey District, and terminating at a point marked B on the said Wellington to Napier (via Wairarapa) Main Highway ; being a distance of 80 chains, more or less ; including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, tracks, lakes,
rivers, streams, and watercourses. All in the Land District of Wellington. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 66475, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 28th day of June, 1926.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(P.W. 62/10/15/7.)

Amending Regulations under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of June, 1926.

Present:

His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915 (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 amend in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto the regulations under the said Act made on the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and published in the Gazette of the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

SCHEDULE.

PARAGRAPH (i) of clause 24 of the said regulations is hereby amended by omitting the words “the next succeeding clause,” and substituting the words “clause 27 hereof.”

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

Amendments to the Regulations under the Government Railways Act, 1908.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of June, 1926.

Present:

His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS section three of the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1911, is in the following terms:— “(1.) Every person who is first appointed to the permanent staff of the Government Railways Department [hereinafter referred to as ‘the Department’] after the passing of this Act and who has any period of continuous service precedent to the date of such appointment shall, on being so appointed, pay contributions to the Government Railways Superannuation Fund [hereinafter referred to as ‘the fund’] as from the third day of January, nineteen hundred and three (being the date on which contributions first became payable to the fund under the Government Railways Superannuation Fund Act, 1902), or from the date on which his precedent period of continuous service commenced if later than the third day of January, nineteen hundred and three, and shall thereupon be entitled to count such continuous service for superannuation purposes. “(2.) The rate of contribution payable under this section shall be determined by reference to the age of the contributor as on the date from which he becomes liable to pay contributions to the fund in accordance with this section. “(3.) Any such person may, in the alternative, elect to pay contributions from the date of his permanent appointment as aforesaid, in which case his service for superannuation purposes shall be deemed to commence as from the date of his appointment, and he shall not be entitled to count any precedent period of service.” And whereas it is desirable to make provision whereby any person, temporarily employed in the Department, and who is eligible for appointment to the permanent staff thereof, may, subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, pay con-