Dec. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4011

as No. 625, exempting portion of Grass Street, in the City of Wellington, from the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a condition as to the building-line, by cancelling the condition as to the building-line imposed by the said Order in Council in so far as it affects Lots 3 and 4, D.P. 2520. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 90860, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

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

(P.W. 51/386.)

Telegraph Rates.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby revoke the Regulations numbered 5, 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 27, and 83 of the Regulations for the Transmission of Telegrams made by Order in Council on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-ninth day of the same month, at page 751, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations, and doth further order and declare that such revocation and the regulations hereby made shall have effect on and from the nineteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five.

REGULATIONS.

5. The charges for the transmission of telegrams from any station to any station in New Zealand shall be as follow:—

Ordinary Telegrams.

For the first 6 words or less, including address and signature .. .. .. .. .. 0 6
For every additional word .. .. .. .. .. 0 1

Letter-telegrams.

For the first 24 words or less, including address and signature .. .. .. .. .. 1 0
For every additional 2 words or fraction thereof .. .. 0 1

Urgent Telegrams.

The rates shall be as for ordinary telegrams, plus, in the case of each urgent telegram, an extra charge of 6d. irrespective of the number of words contained in the message.

Charges on Sundays and Departmental Holidays.

On Sundays and departmental holidays the charges for ordinary, urgent, and collect telegrams shall be the same as for week-days.

Replies may be prepaid.

27. The cost of a reply telegram may be prepaid. The charge for the reply shall be at the usual ordinary or urgent telegram rate and the minimum charge shall be for 6 words. When the sender of a telegram prepays the reply, a reply form, showing on the back the amount prepaid, shall be delivered to the addressee who will be at liberty to use it for any inland telegram at any time within six weeks. Should the form be not used, its value will be refunded, at any time within three months, upon application being made, accompanied by the form itself, to the Director of Finance and Chief Accountant, General Post Office.

Letter-telegrams (Inland).

83. (1) Subject to the conditions set out hereunder, letter-telegrams shall be accepted at any telegraph or telephone office for transmission within the Dominion.

(2) They must be written in plain English or Maori language. No code or cipher words will be permitted, but code addresses or code signatures will be permitted. Trade terms in general use, such as f.o.b., c.i.f., will be allowed. Figures will be permitted only in the address and signature. When required to be used in the text, numbers must be written in words. A telephone number may not be used as a portion of the address.

(3) They may not be sent as “Urgent,” “Collect,” or “Multiple” telegrams, and such instructions as “Repetition paid” will not be permitted, but “reply paid” telegrams will be accepted.

(4) They may be accepted throughout the day up to the time of closing of either the office of origin or the office of destination, whichever is the earlier. Should the delivery office be closed for the day, the name of an office that is still open may be added to the address and the message posted from the latter office.

(5) They may not be accepted on Sundays or departmental holidays.

(6) The charges for letter-telegrams shall be as prescribed in Regulation 5.

(7) A letter-telegram will be posted for delivery on the morning following the day of lodgment, except that when the day of lodgment immediately precedes a Sunday or departmental holiday a letter-telegram will be deliverable by post on the morning following the Sunday or departmental holiday.

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

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Wairau Valley Public Hall Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in the Gazette of the ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall: And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in a special Board as hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section seventeen of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely:—

Leslie John Anderson,
James Owen Anstiss,
Rupert George Barick,
Clement William Eden,
Cornelius Humphrey O’Leary, and
Cyril John Slow,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Wairau Valley Public Hall Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”), with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each month at 8 o’clock p.m., at the Wairau Valley Public Hall, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the 6th day of January, 1936.

2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of any such meeting is given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.