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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 75

“ In the case of a pupil applying for admission to
a technical high school or district high school, a
certificate of competency in the subjects of the
Sixth Standard, with special merit in handwork
or elementary science, shall be deemed to be
equivalent to a certificate of proficiency.
“ (d.) He has satisfactorily completed an approved course
of instruction in the third form of a junior high
school, and has gained a junior-high-school certi-
ficate therein.”
2. Clause 4 (1) is hereby amended by inserting after the
letter (b) the words “ or (d).”
3. Clause 5 is hereby deleted, and the following substituted
therefor :—
“ 5. (1.) Where the qualification is obtained under para-
graphs (a), (b), or (c) of clause 3 hereof, a junior free place
at a secondary school or technical high school is tenable for
two years from the 1st January preceding the actual date of
admission as a free pupil, but in the case of a holder who was
under thirteen years of age on the 1st December preceding
such date of admission, the tenure of the free place may, on
the recommendation of the Principal of the school, be extended
to a third year.
“ (2.) Where the qualification is obtained under para-
graphs (a), (b), or (c) of clause 3 hereof, a junior free place
at a district high school is tenable for three years from the
1st January preceding the actual date of admission.
“ (3.) Where the qualification is obtained under para-
graph (d) of clause 3 hereof, a junior free place at a secondary
school or technical high school is tenable for one year from
the 1st January preceding the actual date of admission as a
free pupil, but in the case of a holder who was under the age
of fourteen years on the 1st December preceding such date
of admission, the tenure of the free place may on the recom-
mendation of the Principal of the school be extended to a
second year.
“ (4.) Where the qualification is obtained under para-
graph (d) of clause 3 hereof, a junior free place at a district
high school is tenable for two years from the 1st January
preceding the actual date of admission.
“ (5.) In no case, however, shall a junior free place be tenable
after the 31st December of the year in which the holder
reaches seventeen years of age.”
4. Clause 7 (c) is hereby amended by inserting, after the
words “ during the two years immediately preceding,” the
words “ of which not more than one year may have been
taken in the third form of a junior high school.”

II. CERTIFICATES OF SECONDARY INSTRUCTION.

Clause 1 of the regulations is hereby amended by deleting
from the first sentence the words “ or technical high school,”
and substituting therefor the words “ technical high school or
registered private secondary school.”

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

Electric-line Regulations.—Telephone Exchange Rates.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of
November, 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 Tele-
graph Act, 1908, and its amendments (hereinafter termed
“ the said Act ”), for connections with telephone exchanges :
And whereas it is expedient to amend such regulations
and rates and charges in the manner hereinafter set forth :
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 hereby revoke
regulations numbered 108 and 109 made by Order in Council
dated the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-five, and published at page 1547 of the New
Zealand Gazette of the twenty-first day of May, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-five, and in lieu thereof doth hereby
make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto ; and
doth declare that the regulations 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.

108. THE rates for ordinary toll communications shall be as
     follows :—
     From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.,—
     Up to three minutes—
     For distances up to 20 miles .. .. 0 4
     For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof
     up to 100 miles.. .. .. 0 1
     For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof
     exceeding 100 miles but not exceeding 150
     miles .. .. .. .. 0 2
     For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof
     exceeding 150 miles .. .. .. 0 1
     From 8 p.m. to midnight and from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.,—
     Up to three minutes—
     For distances up to 40 miles .. .. 0 4
     For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof
     up to 100 miles.. .. .. 0 0½
     For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof
     ‘exceeding 100 miles but not exceeding 150
     miles .. .. .. .. 0 1
     For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof
     exceeding 150 miles .. .. .. 0 0½
     From midnight to 6 a.m.,—
     Up to six minutes—
     For distances up to 40 miles .. .. 0 4
     For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof
     up to 100 miles.. .. .. 0 0½
     For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof
     exceeding 100 miles but not exceeding 150
     miles .. .. .. .. 0 1
     For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof
     exceeding 150 miles .. .. .. 0 0½
     For every additional minute exceeding three between 6 a.m.
     and midnight, and for every additional minute exceeding six
     between midnight and 6 a.m., the charge shall be one-third
     of the initial rate. In calculating the charge for a toll com-
     munication all fractions of a penny shall be counted; but
     in the total charge for a communication fractions smaller
     than a halfpenny shall be excluded, and fractions in excess
     of a halfpenny counted as one penny.
109. (1.) The rates for urgent toll communications at any
     time during the day or night shall be double the rates shown
     under the heading “ From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.” Urgent com-
     munications shall be given precedence over ordinary com-
     munications.
     (2.) The special rates applicable to ordinary communications
     between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. shall not apply to urgent com-
     munications.

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

Grandview Crescent, in the City of Dunedin, exempted from the
Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of
November, 1926.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the
Public Works Act, 1908, 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 Dunedin City Council on the sixth day of
October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, viz. :—
“ That the Council of the City of Dunedin hereby resolves
that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen
of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to both sides
of the whole of that street in the City of Dunedin known as
Grandview Crescent, as the said street is more particularly
shown by brown colour on the plan hereunto annexed ” ;
such street being described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that street situated in the Otago Land District, City of
Dunedin, known as Grandview Crescent, passing through
part Section 49, Block IX, North Harbour and Blueskin
District. As the said street is more particularly delineated
on the plan marked P.W.D. 67419, deposited in the office
of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the
Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured brown.

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

(P.W. 51/831.)