Aug. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2211

Amending Regulations under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1928, governing the Removal of certain Plants and Bees from the North Island to the Rest of New Zealand.--(Notice No. Ag. 2987.)

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of August, 1931.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1928 (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 further amend, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter provided, the regulations under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, enuring under the said Act, governing the removal of certain plants and bees from the North Island into any other portion of New Zealand, made on the sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and published in the Gazette on the ninth day of the same month at page 1987 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations"), and doth hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall come into force on the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. CLAUSE 1 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting therein the following definitions:--
   "Fireblight Area" means the North Island and that portion of the South Island comprising the County of Kaikoura and the Christchurch Commercial Fruitgrowing District, declared as such pursuant to the provisions in that behalf of the Fireblight Act, 1922.
   "Prohibited Area" means all that portion of the South Island comprising the Counties of Waimea, Marlborough, Kowai, Ashley, Oxford, Eyre, Rangiora, Taieri, Tuapeka, and Vincent, and all boroughs and town districts enclosed by the said counties.

2. The principal regulations are hereby consequentially amended as follows:--
   (a) By deleting the words "North Island" wherever those words occur in the following clauses of the principal regulations (that is to say, in clause 2, in subclauses (1) and (3) of clause 3 and in subclauses (1), (2), (4), and (5) of clause 4 thereof), and substituting therefor the words "fireblight area."
   (b) By deleting the words "any other portion of New Zealand" wherever those words occur in the following clauses of the principal regulations (that is to say in clause 2, in subclauses (1) and (3) of clause 3, and in subclauses (1) and (4) of clause 4 thereof), and substituting therefor the words "the prohibited area."
   (c) By deleting the words "North Island" wherever those words occur in the Second and Third Schedules to the principal regulations and substituting therefor the words "Fireblight Area to the Prohibited Area."

3. The principal regulations are hereby amended by inserting the following as clause 5 thereof:--

4. (1) Subject to the provisions of clause 2 hereof no person shall send or bring any package containing any plant or any portion thereof of any variety of apple, pear, quince, cotoneaster, medlar, or crataegus (hawthorns) from the fireblight area to any other portion of the South Island unless such package is accompanied by a certificate in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule hereto, signed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture, and certifying that he has examined all such plants contained in the package and found them to be, to the best of his knowledge, clean and free from disease.
   (2) The certificate shall be endorsed on a tag or label securely attached to the package in a prominent position.
   (3) No person shall carry or despatch or deliver for purposes of despatch to any officer of the Post Office or the Railway Department or any other person any package containing any of the plants referred to in this regulation or any portion of such plants intended to be sent from the fireblight area to any other portion of the South Island, and not having attached thereto as herein provided the certificate required by this regulation.

5. The principal regulations are hereby amended by inserting after the Third Schedule thereto the following additional Schedule:--
   FOURTH SCHEDULE.
   OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE TO ACCOMPANY PACKAGES CONTAINING APPLE, PEAR, QUINCE, COTONEASTER, MEDLAR, OR CRATAEGUS (HAWTHORNS) TREES OR PLANTS FROM THE FIREBLIGHT AREA TO ANY PORTION OF THE SOUTH ISLAND EXCLUSIVE OF THE PROHIBITED AREA.
   I, [ ], an officer of the Department of Agriculture, duly authorized for the purpose, hereby certify that I have duly examined [State number of plants or portions thereof and whether apple, pear, quince, cotoneaster, medlar, or crataegus] contained in this package addressed to [Name and address of consignee] and have found them to be, to the best of my knowledge, clean and free from disease.
   Place: Signature:
   Date: Designation:
   F. D. THOMSON,
   Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendments to the Regulations under the Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1918.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of August, 1931.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section two hundred and thirty of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, 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 made on the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-third day of the same month, at page 3460, under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1918, and enuring under the said Act, and the amendments thereof made from time to time under the provisions of the said Act, and doth order and declare that such amendments shall have effect on and from the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

SCHEDULE.

1. REGULATION 62 is hereby amended by deleting the words "Officers receiving £400 a year or over, 2s. 6d." "Officers receiving under £400 a year, 2s." And substituting therefor "Officers receiving £382 10s. a year or over, 2s. 3d." "Officers receiving under £382 10s. a year, 1s. 9d."
2. Regulations 67 (1) and (8) are hereby revoked and the following substituted in lieu thereof:--
3. (1) With the exception of those officers and employees referred to in Regulation 59, all officers and all persons employed in a temporary capacity may, when required to perform duty away from headquarters, be paid travelling-allowance for personal expenses at the following rates:-- Per Diem.
   (a) Officers drawing salaries not exceeding £130 10s. s. d. per annum: Actual and reasonable expenses.. ..
   (b) Officers drawing salaries exceeding £130 10s. and not exceeding £342 per annum.. .. 12 0
   (c) Officers drawing salaries exceeding £342 and not exceeding £423 per annum.. .. 13 6
   (d) Officers drawing salaries exceeding £423 and not exceeding £508 10s. per annum.. .. 16 0
   (e) Officers drawing salaries exceeding £508 10s. per annum.. .. 18 0
   Provided that while at sea, if the time occupied is more than twenty-four hours, the allowance to the officers referred to in the foregoing paragraphs (b) to (e) inclusive shall be-- For the first day of absence from headquarters.. .. 9 0 For every subsequent day.. .. 2 3