4. Two members of the Committee shall form a quorum at
   any meeting.

5. Save as herein provided, the Adjustment Committee
   shall regulate its own procedure.

6. Save as otherwise provided herein, any person may, up
   to and including 30th September, 1931, apply to the Chair-
   man of the Committee, care of the Justice Department, for
   relief from the operations of the said Act on the ground of
   anomaly or hardship occasioned thereby.

7. All such applications shall be forwarded to the Com-
   mittee, through the Permanent Head of the Department, for
   its determination.

8. No application for relief under these regulations shall be
   considered in respect of—

(a) Any person in receipt, as at 31st March, 1931, of a
salary at a rate exceeding £425; or
(b) Any person bound by an agreement under subsection (2)
of section 3 of the said Act.

9. Every application for relief shall specify as concisely as
   possible the special grounds on which the claim for relief is
   based, and shall also specify—

(a) The rate of remuneration as at 31st March, 1931.
(b) The rate of remuneration as at 31st March, 1930.

10. If in any case the Adjustment Committee is satisfied
    that an anomaly or hardship exists, it shall consider the special
    circumstances of the case and the departmental report and
    recommendation, and may make such decision as in the cir-
    cumstances it thinks fit, just, and equitable : Provided that
    the Adjustment Committee shall not be obliged to make an
    adjustment in any case unless it is satisfied as to the merits of
    the application.

11. The decision of the Committee in respect of any applica-
    tion may be extended by the Adjustment Committee, with
    such modifications or variations (if any) as the Adjustment
    Committee thinks fit, to any other cases or classes of cases,
    whether or not application for relief under these regulations
    has been made.

12. A certificate of the decision of the Committee given
    under the hand of the Chairman shall be sufficient authority
    for failing to make any reduction or for making a reduction
    at a lower rate than the rate prescribed by the said Act,
    according to the tenor of the decision.

13. In considering any application for relief from the opera-
    tion of the said Act on the ground of anomaly or hardship
    made by or in respect of any workers who would be bound by
    an award under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration
    Act, 1908, if they were employed by an employer bound by
    that award, the Adjustment Committee shall ascertain the
    rates of wages under that award to workers of the same class,
    and in determining whether or not relief should be granted
    and the extent of such relief shall take those rates into con-
    sideration, together with all other relevant facts.

14. In the case of persons employed by any University,
    college, or other institution to which section 7 of the said Act
    applies, the adjustment of salary to be made consequent on
    the reduction of grants from the Consolidated Fund as pro-
    vided in that section shall be dealt with by the governing
    bodies of these institutions.

15. For the purposes of the said Act the equivalent of an
    hourly, daily, or weekly rate of salary or wages shall be com-
    puted as follows :—

(a) Hourly Rate: Hourly rate as at 31st March, 1931, to
be multiplied by number of hours worked for period
and 10 per cent. deducted from the gross total.
Where the calculation results in a fraction of a penny
the amount to be paid is to be fixed at the nearest
penny.
(b) Daily Rate: Daily rate as at 31st March, 1931, to be
multiplied by number of working-days in period and
10 per cent. deducted from the gross total. Fractions
of a penny to be dealt with as in the case of hourly rates.
(c) Weekly Rate: Ten per cent. to be deducted from
weekly rate as at 31st March, 1931, and then calcu-
lated for payment twice monthly or monthly in the
same manner as at present. Fractions of a penny
to be dealt with as in the case of hourly rates.
(d) Annual Rate: Ten per cent. to be deducted from
annual rate as at 31st March, 1931, and then calcu-
lated for payment twice monthly or monthly in the
same manner as at present.

16. The aforesaid regulations shall apply to officers of the
    Samoan and Cook Islands Public Service who are subject to
    the said Act by regulations dated 20th April.

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

Opening Lands in the Auckland Land District for Sale or
Selection.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the
amendments thereof, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received
the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided
by section one hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do
hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto
shall be open for sale or selection on Friday, the twenty-sixth
day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and
also the the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the
option of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred
payments, or be selected on renewable lease ; and I do hereby
also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occu-
pied, or leased as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto,
and do hereby declare that the said lands shall be sold,
occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of
the Land Act, 1924, and the amendments thereof.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Otorohanga County. — Mangaorongo Survey District.
Native Land Settlement Account (120 acres).
Crown Land (300 acres).

SECTION 18, Block IV : Area, 420 acres 0 roods 29 perches.
Capital value, £525. Deposit on deferred payments, £25 ;
half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £16 5s. Renew-
able lease : Half-yearly rent, £11 5s.
Dairying and grazing property, situated on the Te Kawa-
Wharepuhunga Road, fourteen miles from Te Awamutu
Post-office, railway-station, dairy-factory, and saleyards by a
metalled road three miles and a half from Korakonui School.
The section is in its natural state—in fern and tutu, about
half the area being easy to undulating country ; the balance
broken, with outcrops of rhyolite and sandstone. Free of
noxious weeds.
The soil is a light loam resting on sandstone and rhyolite
formation, and is watered by springs and the Mangatutu
River.

NOTE.—The selector will be liable for half-share in the
undermentioned fencing : 76½ chains of rabbit-proof fencing
on southern boundary Rangitoto A No. 4. Arrangements for
the purchase of a half-interest therein will be required to be
made by the selector with the adjoining owners.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Sections 14 and 15, Block IV : Area, 360 acres 3 roods.
Capital value, £360. Deposit on deferred payments, £20.
Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £11 1s. Renew-
able lease : Half-yearly rent, £7 4s.
Dairying and grazing property situated on the Korakonui-
Maihiihi Road, sixteen miles from Te Awamutu Post-office,
railway-station, dairy-factory, and saleyards, and five miles
from Korakonui School—fifteen miles metalled and one mile
formed road.
The frontage of the section is fairly steep with broad slopes,
the top country being easy undulating land. The whole of the
area is in natural state, fern, and tutu. Free from noxious
weeds.
The soil is a light loam resting on sandstone and rhyolite
formation ; watered by springs and running streams.

NOTE.—The selector will be liable for half-share in the
undermentioned fencing : 35 chains southern boundary,
adjoining Rangitoto A No. 4 and 71½ chains fencing on the
northern boundary. Arrangements for the purchase of half-
interest therein will be required to be made by the selector
with adjoining owners.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Rotorua County. — Rotorua Survey District.
Sections 23, 27, 31, and 32, Block IV : Area, 151 acres
3 roods 37 perches. Capital value, £40. Deposit on deferred
payments, £5 ; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments,
£1 2s. 9d. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, 16s.
Grazing property situated nine miles from Ngongotaha
Railway-station and dairy factory, and fourteen miles from
Rotorua. Fair road in all weathers.
A school and post-office adjoin the area.
Undulating to hilly section of which approximately 50 acres
bush land felled and grassed, but now reverting ; balance in
natural state. Blackberry and ragwort in evidence.