Dec. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4043

Declaration of Result of Poll for the Western Maori Electoral District.

I, ROBERT PRESHAW DYKES, Returning Officer for the Western Maori Electoral District, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on the 26th day of November, 1935, for the election of a member of Parliament for the said district to be as follows:—

Candidates. Votes polled.
Haami Tokouru Ratana .. .. .. 3,433
Herewini te Moananui Howera .. .. 644
John Atirau Asher (Tiaki Ehia) .. .. 996
Taare Patena .. .. .. 165
Taite te Tomo .. .. .. 3,395
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Total number of votes polled .. .. 8,633

I therefore declare the said Haami Tokouru Ratana to be elected.
Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of December, 1935.

R. P. DYKES, Returning Officer.

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Declaration of Result of Poll for the Southern Maori Electoral District.

I, JOHN ROYDEN SANSOM, Returning Officer for the Southern Maori Electoral District, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on the 26th day of November, 1935, for the election of a member of Parliament for the said district to be as follows:—

Candidates. Votes polled.
Eruera Tiheima Tirikatene .. .. 362
Erueti te Whitiorongomai Rio-Love .. .. 213
Thomas Kaiporohu Bragg .. .. 319
Tuiti Makitanara .. .. 62
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Total number of votes polled .. .. 956

I therefore declare the said Eruera Tiheima Tirikatene to be elected.
Dated at Christchurch, this 10th day of December, 1935.

J. R. SANSOM, Returning Officer.

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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 August, 1935, 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 Regulations 64, 94, and 101, and substituting the following regulations 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 £149 12s. per annum: Actual reasonable expenses.

“(ii) An employee whose salary exceeds £149 12s. per annum but does not exceed £347 9s. 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.

“(iii) An employee whose salary exceeds £347 9s. per annum but does not exceed £429 15s. per annum: 13s. 6d. per day.

“(iv) An employee whose salary exceeds £429 15s. per annum but does not exceed £516 12s. per annum: 16s. per day.

“(v) An employee whose salary exceeds £516 12s. per annum (other than the General Manager): 18s. per day.

“(vi) The General Manager: 22s. 6d. per day.

“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: 9s. per day.

“(viii) For the second and each subsequent day of absence: 2s. 3d. per day.

“(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 £149 12s. per annum: Actual reasonable expenses.

“(ii) An employee whose salary exceeds £149 12s. per annum but does not exceed £269 15s. per annum, 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 £269 15s. per annum but does not exceed £429 15s. per annum shall be entitled to 11s. 3d. per day.

“(iv) Employees whose salaries exceed £429 15s. 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.