Sept. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2859

Regulations under the Government Railways Acts.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the Government Railways Act, 1926, and its amendments, the Government Railways Board hereby resolves to amend, as from and including the 1st day of July, 1931, the regulations made under the Government Railways Act, 1908, on the 12th day of June, 1922, and published in the Gazette of the 15th day of June, 1922 (as from time to time amended, and as the same are enuring under the Government Railways Act, 1926), by omitting Regulation 64 and substituting the following regulation in lieu thereof:—

64. (a) Employees in Division I, when absent from their headquarters on other than relief duty, shall, subject to paragraph (c) of this regulation, be paid travelling-allowance for personal expenses at the following rates in each case:—

(i) An employee whose salary does not exceed £139 10s. per annum: Actual reasonable expenses.

(ii) An employee whose salary exceeds £139 10s. but does not exceed £342 per annum, if absent for not more than six days, shall be entitled to 13s. 6d. per day. If the absence exceeds six days but the employee is not more than six days in any one locality he shall be entitled to the allowance of 13s. 6d. per day throughout the whole of the period of absence. If, however, while so absent, the employee remains in any one locality for more than six days he shall only be entitled to 12s. per day while in such locality, provided that the total allowance payable in respect of the employee’s stay in such locality shall not be less than £4 1s.

Per Day.

(iii) An employee whose salary exceeds £342 per annum but does not exceed £423 per annum 13 6

(iv) An employee whose salary exceeds £423 but does not exceed £508 10s. per annum .. 16 0

(v) An employee whose salary exceeds £508 10s. per annum (other than the General Manager) 18 0

(vi) The General Manager .. .. .. 22 6

Provided that in respect of time during which any employee referred to in the preceding subparagraphs of this paragraph is travelling by sea the rate shall, if such time exceeds twenty-four hours, be as follows:—

(vii) For the first day of absence from headquarters 9 0

(viii) For the second and each subsequent day of absence .. .. .. .. 2 3

(b) An employee in Division I, while absent from his headquarters on relief duty, shall, subject to paragraph (c) of this regulation, be paid relieving-allowance for personal expenses at the following rates in each case:—

(i) An employee whose salary does not exceed £139 10s. per annum: Actual reasonable expenses.

(ii) An employee whose salary exceeds £139 10s. but does not exceed £265 10s., if absent for not more than six days shall be entitled to 11s. 3d. per day. If the absence exceeds six days but the employee is not more than six days in any one locality he shall be entitled to the allowance of 11s. 3d. throughout the whole of the period of absence. If, however, while so absent, the employee remains in any one locality for more than six days he shall only be entitled to 9s. per day while in such locality, provided that the total allowance payable in respect of the employee’s stay in such locality shall not be less than £3 7s. 6d.

(iii) An employee whose salary exceeds £265 10s. per annum but does not exceed £423 per annum shall be entitled to 11s. 3d. per day.

(iv) Employees whose salaries exceed £423 per annum: At the rate prescribed for travelling-allowance in each case.

(c) If any employee in Division I, while travelling on relief or other duty, is provided with a berth in a sleeping-car, or sleeping-accommodation on sea journeys which do not occupy more than twenty-four hours, the claim for travelling or relieving allowance, as the case may be, shall be reduced by an amount equal to one-quarter of the prescribed daily rate for each occasion on which a berth or other sleeping-accommodation as aforesaid is provided.

(d) “Day,” for the purposes of this regulation means a period of twenty-four hours, and no distinction between Sunday and any other day is recognized in such period. The period for which travelling or relieving allowance shall be payable shall in each case be calculated from the time of departure of the employee concerned from his headquarters in pursuance of the duty on which he is required to travel until his return thereto. For any portion of a day the rate shall be one twenty-fourth of the prescribed daily rate for each hour’s absence from headquarters. In computing the period of such absence a fraction of an hour, if less than half an hour, shall not be taken into account, but half an hour or more shall be reckoned as one hour.

(e) No employee who is entitled to be paid lodging-allowance shall be entitled to claim such allowance concurrently with travelling or relieving allowance for any continuous period exceeding one week. When any such employee becomes entitled to payment of travelling or relieving allowance for any continuous period exceeding one week the amount paid or payable to him as lodging-allowance for such period shall be deducted from the amount payable to him by way of travelling or relieving allowance for the same period.

(f) No employee who is entitled to be paid relieving-allowance shall also be paid travelling-allowance in respect of the same absence from headquarters: Provided, however, that when an employee performs relieving duty, and in the course thereof is absent from his headquarters for not more than three days at the same place, he may be paid travelling-allowance instead of relieving-allowance in respect of the time during which he is relieving at such place: Provided, further, that if an employee is occupied for not less than six hours in travelling to or from his headquarters on relieving duty, he may be paid travelling-allowance instead of relieving-allowance in respect of each day on which he is so occupied.

(g) The rates of salary mentioned in this regulation refer to the rates payable after the reduction prescribed by the Finance Act, 1931, has been made therein. The allowances prescribed in this regulation shall be deemed to be the appropriate allowances as reduced by the said Act.

Dated this 10th day of September, 1931.

The Official Seal of the Government Railways Board was hereunto affixed in the presence of—

J. J. ESSON, Chairman.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

I, WALTER HAROLD FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the affairs of the Palmers-ton North Coal Dealers’ Association (Incorporated) have been wound up, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of September, 1931.

W. H. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, HAROLD BEANLAND WALTON, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Samoan Ex-service men’s Association (Incorporated), is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Auckland, this 17th day of September, 1931.

H. B. WALTON,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.—Notice of Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 21st September, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Puponga Coal-miners and Coal-mine Labourers’ Industrial Union of Workers, Registered Number 1299, situated at Puponga, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

W. NEWTON,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Officiating Ministers for 1931.—Notice No. 31.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1931.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Charles C. Sedgwick.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.